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Sampling Generative Networks

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2016-12-07 v3 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce several techniques for sampling and visualizing the latent spaces of generative models. Replacing linear interpolation with spherical linear interpolation prevents diverging from a model's prior distribution and produces sharper samples. J-Diagrams and MINE grids are introduced as visualizations of manifolds created by analogies and nearest neighbors. We demonstrate two new techniques for deriving attribute vectors: bias-corrected vectors with data replication and synthetic vectors with data augmentation. Binary classification using attribute vectors is presented as a technique supporting quantitative analysis of the latent space. Most techniques are intended to be independent of model type and examples are shown on both Variational Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks.

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@article{arxiv.1609.04468,
  title  = {Sampling Generative Networks},
  author = {Tom White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04468},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, 11 figures

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