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Auxiliary Deep Generative Models

ICML 2016 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Structured latent VAEs · 257 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
add second stochastic layer (L=1 to L=2) to AVAE (ablation)AVAE · MNIST unsupervisedlog-likelihood bound: -84.59 -> -82.97Helped
increase importance-weighted samples 1 to 50 in trainingIWAE L=1 · MNIST unsupervisedlog-likelihood bound: -86.76 -> -84.78Helped
AVAE (L=1) vs IWAE (L=1, IW=1) and VAE+NFIWAE L=1 · MNIST unsupervisedlog-likelihood bound: -86.76 -> -84.59Helped
remove warm-up of KL term (ablation)AVAE · MNIST unsupervisedactivation of auxiliary variablesHurt
add auxiliary variable to M2 (ADGM vs M2 with same hyperparameters) (ablation)M2 · MNIST 100 labelsclassification errorHelped
make auxiliary variable deterministic (ablation)ADGM · MNIST 100 labelsclassification errorHurt
use ADGM instead of SDGM on MNISTSDGM · MNIST 100 labelstest error (%): 1.32 -> 0.96Helped
SDGM (skip connections, two stochastic layers) vs ADGM on SVHNADGM · SVHN 1000 labelstest error (%): 22.86 -> 16.61Helped
SDGM vs ADGM on NORBADGM · NORB 1000 labelstest error (%): 10.06 -> 9.40Helped
SDGM vs VAT on SVHNVAT · SVHN 1000 labelstest error (%): 24.63 -> 16.61Helped
omit SVHN extra set from training (ablation)SDGM · SVHN 1000 labelstest error (%): 16.61 -> 29.82Hurt
ADGM vs VAT on NORBVAT · NORB 1000 labelstest error (%): 9.88 -> 10.06Hurt

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