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cs.LG2019★ 2 cited
Rate-Regularization and Generalization in VAEs
Alican Bozkurt, Babak Esmaeili, Jean-Baptiste Tristan +3
Variational autoencoders optimize an objective that combines a reconstruction loss (the distortion) and a KL term (the rate). The rate is an upper bound on the mutual information,…
cs.CL2019★ 14 cited
Structured Neural Topic Models for Reviews
Babak Esmaeili, Hongyi Huang, Byron C. Wallace +1
We present Variational Aspect-based Latent Topic Allocation (VALTA), a family of autoencoding topic models that learn aspect-based representations of reviews. VALTA defines a user-…