835 research outputs found
Adversarial Variational Embedding for Robust Semi-supervised Learning
Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when
labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models
(e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial
Networks (GANs) have recently shown promising performance in semi-supervised
classification for the excellent discriminative representing ability. However,
the latent code learned by the traditional VAE is not exclusive (repeatable)
for a specific input sample, which prevents it from excellent classification
performance. In particular, the learned latent representation depends on a
non-exclusive component which is stochastically sampled from the prior
distribution. Moreover, the semi-supervised GAN models generate data from
pre-defined distribution (e.g., Gaussian noises) which is independent of the
input data distribution and may obstruct the convergence and is difficult to
control the distribution of the generated data. To address the aforementioned
issues, we propose a novel Adversarial Variational Embedding (AVAE) framework
for robust and effective semi-supervised learning to leverage both the
advantage of GAN as a high quality generative model and VAE as a posterior
distribution learner. The proposed approach first produces an exclusive latent
code by the model which we call VAE++, and meanwhile, provides a meaningful
prior distribution for the generator of GAN. The proposed approach is evaluated
over four different real-world applications and we show that our method
outperforms the state-of-the-art models, which confirms that the combination of
VAE++ and GAN can provide significant improvements in semisupervised
classification.Comment: 9 pages, Accepted by Research Track in KDD 201
Deep Learning based Recommender System: A Survey and New Perspectives
With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender systems have
been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. The utility
of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its widespread adoption in
many web applications, along with its potential impact to ameliorate many
problems related to over-choice. In recent years, deep learning has garnered
considerable interest in many research fields such as computer vision and
natural language processing, owing not only to stellar performance but also the
attractive property of learning feature representations from scratch. The
influence of deep learning is also pervasive, recently demonstrating its
effectiveness when applied to information retrieval and recommender systems
research. Evidently, the field of deep learning in recommender system is
flourishing. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of recent
research efforts on deep learning based recommender systems. More concretely,
we provide and devise a taxonomy of deep learning based recommendation models,
along with providing a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art. Finally,
we expand on current trends and provide new perspectives pertaining to this new
exciting development of the field.Comment: The paper has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/328502
TransNets: Learning to Transform for Recommendation
Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to improve the performance of
recommender systems over traditional methods, especially when review text is
available. For example, a recent model, DeepCoNN, uses neural nets to learn one
latent representation for the text of all reviews written by a target user, and
a second latent representation for the text of all reviews for a target item,
and then combines these latent representations to obtain state-of-the-art
performance on recommendation tasks. We show that (unsurprisingly) much of the
predictive value of review text comes from reviews of the target user for the
target item. We then introduce a way in which this information can be used in
recommendation, even when the target user's review for the target item is not
available. Our model, called TransNets, extends the DeepCoNN model by
introducing an additional latent layer representing the target user-target item
pair. We then regularize this layer, at training time, to be similar to another
latent representation of the target user's review of the target item. We show
that TransNets and extensions of it improve substantially over the previous
state-of-the-art.Comment: Accepted for publication in the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender
Systems (RecSys 2017
Alternating Back-Propagation for Generator Network
This paper proposes an alternating back-propagation algorithm for learning
the generator network model. The model is a non-linear generalization of factor
analysis. In this model, the mapping from the continuous latent factors to the
observed signal is parametrized by a convolutional neural network. The
alternating back-propagation algorithm iterates the following two steps: (1)
Inferential back-propagation, which infers the latent factors by Langevin
dynamics or gradient descent. (2) Learning back-propagation, which updates the
parameters given the inferred latent factors by gradient descent. The gradient
computations in both steps are powered by back-propagation, and they share most
of their code in common. We show that the alternating back-propagation
algorithm can learn realistic generator models of natural images, video
sequences, and sounds. Moreover, it can also be used to learn from incomplete
or indirect training data
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