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Disentangling Disentanglement in Variational Autoencoders
Emile Mathieu, Tom Rainforth, N. Siddharth +1
We develop a generalisation of disentanglement in VAEs---decomposition of the latent representation---characterising it as the fulfilment of two factors: a) the latent encodings of…
A Statistical Approach to Assessing Neural Network Robustness
Stefan Webb, Tom Rainforth, Yee Whye Teh +1
We present a new approach to assessing the robustness of neural networks based on estimating the proportion of inputs for which a property is violated. Specifically, we estimate th…
On Exploration, Exploitation and Learning in Adaptive Importance Sampling
Xiaoyu Lu, Tom Rainforth, Yuan Zhou +2
We study adaptive importance sampling (AIS) as an online learning problem and argue for the importance of the trade-off between exploration and exploitation in this adaptation. Bor…
Nesting Probabilistic Programs
Tom Rainforth
We formalize the notion of nesting probabilistic programming queries and investigate the resulting statistical implications. We demonstrate that while query nesting allows the defi…
Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better
Tom Rainforth, Adam R. Kosiorek, Tuan Anh Le +4
We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that using tighter evidence lower bounds (ELBOs) can be detrimental to the process of learning an inference network by reducing the si…