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cs.LG2019★ 36 cited
Compression with Flows via Local Bits-Back Coding
Jonathan Ho, Evan Lohn, Pieter Abbeel
Likelihood-based generative models are the backbones of lossless compression due to the guaranteed existence of codes with lengths close to negative log likelihood. However, there…
cs.LG2019★ 56 cited
Bit-Swap: Recursive Bits-Back Coding for Lossless Compression with Hierarchical Latent Variables
Friso H. Kingma, Pieter Abbeel, Jonathan Ho
The bits-back argument suggests that latent variable models can be turned into lossless compression schemes. Translating the bits-back argument into efficient and practical lossles…