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Non-parametric Structured Output Networks

NeurIPS 2017 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Latent variable marginalization and estimators · 3 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Non-parametric structured output network (NSON) vs. parametric or unstructured posteriors on pixel stripesNGM-100 model · Pixel stripes (COCO) test setexpected test log-likelihood: +16.46 vs +11.51 for mixture density (best baseline)Helped
Factored graphical structure (chain) over non-parametric potentials vs. global mixture densityNGM-100 model · Pixel stripes (COCO) test setexpected test log-likelihood: +16.46 vs +11.51Helped
Estimating kernel locations only (no weights or bandwidths) in NGM (ablation)NGM-100 model · Pixel stripes (COCO) test setexpected test log-likelihood: +15.26 vs +16.46 for full modelHurt
Adding kernel weight estimation to bandwidth estimation (+W over -W +B) (ablation)NGM-100 model · Pixel stripes (COCO) test setexpected test log-likelihood: +16.46 vs +15.30Helped
Recurrent inference network (RIN) vs. particle BP and black-box VI for marginal inferenceRIN-100 · Pixel stripes marginal inferencemarginal log-likelihood: +16.62 vs +8.85 (P-BP 400) and +3.03 (BB-VI 800)Helped
Recurrent inference network vs. particle BP with 100 particles in runtimeRIN-100 · Pixel stripes marginal inferenceruntime (sec): 0.04 s vs 2.11 s for P-BP-100 (over 50x faster)Helped
Adding more particles to particle BPP-BP · Pixel stripes marginal inferencemarginal log-likelihood: +2.91 (50 particles) to +8.85 (400 particles)Helped

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