Abstract
A rekindled the interest in auto-encoder algorithms has been spurred by recent work on deep learning. Current efforts have been directed towards effective training of auto-encoder architectures with a large number of coding units. Here, we propose a learning algorithm for auto-encoders based on a rate-distortion objective that minimizes the mutual information between the inputs and the outputs of the auto-encoder subject to a fidelity constraint. The goal is to learn a representation that is minimally committed to the input data, but that is rich enough to reconstruct the inputs up to certain level of distortion. Minimizing the mutual information acts as a regularization term whereas the fidelity constraint can be understood as a risk functional in the conventional statistical learning setting. The proposed algorithm uses a recently introduced measure of entropy based on infinitely divisible matrices that avoids the plug in estimation of densities. Experiments using over-complete bases show that the rate-distortion auto-encoders can learn a regularized input-output mapping in an implicit manner.
Original language | English |
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State | Published - 2014 |
Event | 2nd International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2014 - Banff, Canada Duration: Apr 14 2014 → Apr 16 2014 |
Conference
Conference | 2nd International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2014 |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Banff |
Period | 4/14/14 → 4/16/14 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics
- Education