Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Towards Conceptual Compression

  So Deep Learning now takes on compression. This is significant, not because of compression per se but because it sends the message " we don't need years of thinking about the right standards a la JPEG to explore the world".



Towards Conceptual Compression by Karol Gregor, Frederic Besse, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Ivo Danihelka, Daan Wierstra

We introduce a simple recurrent variational auto-encoder architecture that significantly improves image modeling. The system represents the state-of-the-art in latent variable models for both the ImageNet and Omniglot datasets. We show that it naturally separates global conceptual information from lower level details, thus addressing one of the fundamentally desired properties of unsupervised learning. Furthermore, the possibility of restricting ourselves to storing only global information about an image allows us to achieve high quality 'conceptual compression'.
  and earlier,


DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network For Image Generation by Karol Gregor, Ivo Danihelka, Alex Graves, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Daan Wierstra

This paper introduces the Deep Recurrent Attentive Writer (DRAW) neural network architecture for image generation. DRAW networks combine a novel spatial attention mechanism that mimics the foveation of the human eye, with a sequential variational auto-encoding framework that allows for the iterative construction of complex images. The system substantially improves on the state of the art for generative models on MNIST, and, when trained on the Street View House Numbers dataset, it generates images that cannot be distinguished from real data with the naked eye.
 
 
 
 
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