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All in the Exponential Family: Bregman Duality in Thermodynamic Variational Inference
Rob Brekelmans, Vaden Masrani, Frank Wood +2
The recently proposed Thermodynamic Variational Objective (TVO) leverages thermodynamic integration to provide a family of variational inference objectives, which both tighten and…
Discovery and Separation of Features for Invariant Representation Learning
Ayush Jaiswal, Rob Brekelmans, Daniel Moyer +3
Supervised machine learning models often associate irrelevant nuisance factors with the prediction target, which hurts generalization. We propose a framework for training robust ne…
Exact Rate-Distortion in Autoencoders via Echo Noise
Rob Brekelmans, Daniel Moyer, Aram Galstyan +1
Compression is at the heart of effective representation learning. However, lossy compression is typically achieved through simple parametric models like Gaussian noise to preserve…
Disentangled Representations via Synergy Minimization
Greg Ver Steeg, Rob Brekelmans, Hrayr Harutyunyan +1
Scientists often seek simplified representations of complex systems to facilitate prediction and understanding. If the factors comprising a representation allow us to make accurate…