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Auxiliary Deep Generative Models
Deep generative models parameterized by neural networks have recently
achieved state-of-the-art performance in unsupervised and semi-supervised
learning. We extend deep generative models with auxiliary variables which
improves the variational approximation. The auxiliary variables leave the
generative model unchanged but make the variational distribution more
expressive. Inspired by the structure of the auxiliary variable we also propose
a model with two stochastic layers and skip connections. Our findings suggest
that more expressive and properly specified deep generative models converge
faster with better results. We show state-of-the-art performance within
semi-supervised learning on MNIST, SVHN and NORB datasets.Comment: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning,
New York, NY, USA, 2016, JMLR: Workshop and Conference Proceedings volume 48,
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, New
York, NY, USA, 201
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