On the equivalence between deep nade and generative stochastic networks

L Yao, S Ozair, K Cho, Y Bengio - … 2014, Nancy, France, September 15-19 …, 2014 - Springer
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference …, 2014Springer
Abstract Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimators (NADEs) have recently been shown
as successful alternatives for modeling high dimensional multimodal distributions. One issue
associated with NADEs is that they rely on a particular order of factorization for P (x). This
issue has been recently addressed by a variant of NADE called Orderless NADEs and its
deeper version, Deep Orderless NADE. Orderless NADEs are trained based on a criterion
that stochastically maximizes P (x) with all possible orders of factorizations. Unfortunately …
Abstract
Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimators (NADEs) have recently been shown as successful alternatives for modeling high dimensional multimodal distributions. One issue associated with NADEs is that they rely on a particular order of factorization for P(x). This issue has been recently addressed by a variant of NADE called Orderless NADEs and its deeper version, Deep Orderless NADE. Orderless NADEs are trained based on a criterion that stochastically maximizes P(x) with all possible orders of factorizations. Unfortunately, ancestral sampling from deep NADE is very expensive, corresponding to running through a neural net separately predicting each of the visible variables given some others. This work makes a connection between this criterion and the training criterion for Generative Stochastic Networks (GSNs). It shows that training NADEs in this way also trains a GSN, which defines a Markov chain associated with the NADE model. Based on this connection, we show an alternative way to sample from a trained Orderless NADE that allows to trade-off computing time and quality of the samples: a 3 to 10-fold speedup (taking into account the waste due to correlations between consecutive samples of the chain) can be obtained without noticeably reducing the quality of the samples. This is achieved using a novel sampling procedure for GSNs called annealed GSN sampling, similar to tempering methods that combines fast mixing (obtained thanks to steps at high noise levels) with accurate samples (obtained thanks to steps at low noise levels).
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