On the Information Theoretic Distance Measures and Bidirectional Helmholtz Machines
Machine Learning
2018-07-18 v1 Information Theory
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Machine Learning
Abstract
By establishing a connection between bi-directional Helmholtz machines and information theory, we propose a generalized Helmholtz machine. Theoretical and experimental results show that given \textit{shallow} architectures, the generalized model outperforms the previous ones substantially.
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@article{arxiv.1807.06054,
title = {On the Information Theoretic Distance Measures and Bidirectional Helmholtz Machines},
author = {Mahdi Azarafrooz and Xuan Zhao and Sepehr Akhavan-Masouleh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06054},
year = {2018}
}