Training Implicit Generative Models via an Invariant Statistical Loss

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Hauptverfasser: de Frutos, José Manuel, Olmos, Pablo M., Vázquez, Manuel A., Míguez, Joaquín
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author de Frutos, José Manuel
Olmos, Pablo M.
Vázquez, Manuel A.
Míguez, Joaquín
author_facet de Frutos, José Manuel
Olmos, Pablo M.
Vázquez, Manuel A.
Míguez, Joaquín
contents Implicit generative models have the capability to learn arbitrary complex data distributions. On the downside, training requires telling apart real data from artificially-generated ones using adversarial discriminators, leading to unstable training and mode-dropping issues. As reported by Zahee et al. (2017), even in the one-dimensional (1D) case, training a generative adversarial network (GAN) is challenging and often suboptimal. In this work, we develop a discriminator-free method for training one-dimensional (1D) generative implicit models and subsequently expand this method to accommodate multivariate cases. Our loss function is a discrepancy measure between a suitably chosen transformation of the model samples and a uniform distribution; hence, it is invariant with respect to the true distribution of the data. We first formulate our method for 1D random variables, providing an effective solution for approximate reparameterization of arbitrary complex distributions. Then, we consider the temporal setting (both univariate and multivariate), in which we model the conditional distribution of each sample given the history of the process. We demonstrate through numerical simulations that this new method yields promising results, successfully learning true distributions in a variety of scenarios and mitigating some of the well-known problems that state-of-the-art implicit methods present.
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spellingShingle Training Implicit Generative Models via an Invariant Statistical Loss
de Frutos, José Manuel
Olmos, Pablo M.
Vázquez, Manuel A.
Míguez, Joaquín
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Statistics Theory
Implicit generative models have the capability to learn arbitrary complex data distributions. On the downside, training requires telling apart real data from artificially-generated ones using adversarial discriminators, leading to unstable training and mode-dropping issues. As reported by Zahee et al. (2017), even in the one-dimensional (1D) case, training a generative adversarial network (GAN) is challenging and often suboptimal. In this work, we develop a discriminator-free method for training one-dimensional (1D) generative implicit models and subsequently expand this method to accommodate multivariate cases. Our loss function is a discrepancy measure between a suitably chosen transformation of the model samples and a uniform distribution; hence, it is invariant with respect to the true distribution of the data. We first formulate our method for 1D random variables, providing an effective solution for approximate reparameterization of arbitrary complex distributions. Then, we consider the temporal setting (both univariate and multivariate), in which we model the conditional distribution of each sample given the history of the process. We demonstrate through numerical simulations that this new method yields promising results, successfully learning true distributions in a variety of scenarios and mitigating some of the well-known problems that state-of-the-art implicit methods present.
title Training Implicit Generative Models via an Invariant Statistical Loss
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16435