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Experimenting with autoregressive flows in TensorFlow Chance



Experimenting with autoregressive flows in TensorFlow Chance

Within the first a part of this mini-series on autoregressive movement fashions, we checked out bijectors in TensorFlow Chance (TFP), and noticed tips on how to use them for sampling and density estimation. We singled out the affine bijector to reveal the mechanics of movement building: We begin from a distribution that’s simple to pattern from, and that enables for easy calculation of its density. Then, we connect some variety of invertible transformations, optimizing for data-likelihood underneath the ultimate reworked distribution. The effectivity of that (log)chance calculation is the place normalizing flows excel: Loglikelihood underneath the (unknown) goal distribution is obtained as a sum of the density underneath the bottom distribution of the inverse-transformed information plus absolutely the log determinant of the inverse Jacobian.

Now, an affine movement will seldom be highly effective sufficient to mannequin nonlinear, complicated transformations. In constrast, autoregressive fashions have proven substantive success in density estimation in addition to pattern technology. Mixed with extra concerned architectures, function engineering, and in depth compute, the idea of autoregressivity has powered – and is powering – state-of-the-art architectures in areas comparable to picture, speech and video modeling.

This put up might be involved with the constructing blocks of autoregressive flows in TFP. Whereas we gained’t precisely be constructing state-of-the-art fashions, we’ll attempt to perceive and play with some main components, hopefully enabling the reader to do her personal experiments on her personal information.

This put up has three components: First, we’ll have a look at autoregressivity and its implementation in TFP. Then, we attempt to (roughly) reproduce one of many experiments within the “MAF paper” (Masked Autoregressive Flows for Distribution Estimation (Papamakarios, Pavlakou, and Murray 2017)) – basically a proof of idea. Lastly, for the third time on this weblog, we come again to the duty of analysing audio information, with blended outcomes.

Autoregressivity and masking

In distribution estimation, autoregressivity enters the scene by way of the chain rule of chance that decomposes a joint density right into a product of conditional densities:

[
p(mathbf{x}) = prod_{i}p(mathbf{x}_i|mathbf{x}_{1:i−1})
]

In follow, because of this autoregressive fashions need to impose an order on the variables – an order which could or won’t “make sense.” Approaches right here embrace selecting orderings at random and/or utilizing totally different orderings for every layer.
Whereas in recurrent neural networks, autoregressivity is conserved as a result of recurrence relation inherent in state updating, it isn’t clear a priori how autoregressivity is to be achieved in a densely linked structure. A computationally environment friendly answer was proposed in MADE: Masked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation(Germain et al. 2015): Ranging from a densely linked layer, masks out all connections that shouldn’t be allowed, i.e., all connections from enter function (i) to mentioned layer’s activations (1 … i-1). Or expressed otherwise, activation (i) could also be linked to enter options (1 … i-1) solely. Then when including extra layers, care should be taken to make sure that all required connections are masked in order that on the finish, output (i) will solely ever have seen inputs (1 … i-1).

Thus masked autoregressive flows are a fusion of two main approaches – autoregressive fashions (which needn’t be flows) and flows (which needn’t be autoregressive). In TFP these are offered by MaskedAutoregressiveFlow, for use as a bijector in a TransformedDistribution.

Whereas the documentation exhibits tips on how to use this bijector, the step from theoretical understanding to coding a “black field” could appear broad. Should you’re something just like the creator, right here you would possibly really feel the urge to “look underneath the hood” and confirm that issues actually are the way in which you’re assuming. So let’s give in to curiosity and permit ourselves a bit escapade into the supply code.

Peeking forward, that is how we’ll assemble a masked autoregressive movement in TFP (once more utilizing the nonetheless new-ish R bindings offered by tfprobability):

library(tfprobability)

maf <- tfb_masked_autoregressive_flow(
    shift_and_log_scale_fn = tfb_masked_autoregressive_default_template(
      hidden_layers = listing(num_hidden, num_hidden),
      activation = tf$nn$tanh)
)

Pulling aside the related entities right here, tfb_masked_autoregressive_flow is a bijector, with the same old strategies tfb_forward(), tfb_inverse(), tfb_forward_log_det_jacobian() and tfb_inverse_log_det_jacobian().
The default shift_and_log_scale_fn, tfb_masked_autoregressive_default_template, constructs a bit neural community of its personal, with a configurable variety of hidden items per layer, a configurable activation operate and optionally, different configurable parameters to be handed to the underlying dense layers. It’s these dense layers that need to respect the autoregressive property. Can we check out how that is performed? Sure we will, offered we’re not afraid of a bit Python.

masked_autoregressive_default_template (now leaving out the tfb_ as we’ve entered Python-land) makes use of masked_dense to do what you’d suppose a thus-named operate may be doing: assemble a dense layer that has a part of the load matrix masked out. How? We’ll see after a couple of Python setup statements.

present kind on grasp), and when doable, simplified for higher readability, accommodating simply the specifics of the chosen instance – a toy matrix of form 2×3:

Papamakarios, Pavlakou, and Murray 2017) applied masked autoregressive flows (as well as single-layer-MADE(Germain et al. 2015) and Real NVP (Dinh, Sohl-Dickstein, and Bengio 2016)) to a number of datasets, including MNIST, CIFAR-10 and several datasets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository.

We pick one of the UCI datasets: Gas sensors for home activity monitoring. On this dataset, the MAF authors obtained the best results using a MAF with 10 flows, so this is what we will try.

Collecting information from the paper, we know that

  • data was included from the file ethylene_CO.txt only;
  • discrete columns were eliminated, as well as all columns with correlations > .98; and
  • the remaining 8 columns were standardised (z-transformed).

Regarding the neural network architecture, we gather that

  • each of the 10 MAF layers was followed by a batchnorm;
  • as to feature order, the first MAF layer used the variable order that came with the dataset; then every consecutive layer reversed it;
  • specifically for this dataset and as opposed to all other UCI datasets, tanh was used for activation instead of relu;
  • the Adam optimizer was used, with a learning rate of 1e-4;
  • there were two hidden layers for each MAF, with 100 units each;
  • training went on until no improvement occurred for 30 consecutive epochs on the validation set; and
  • the base distribution was a multivariate Gaussian.

This is all useful information for our attempt to estimate this dataset, but the essential bit is this. In case you knew the dataset already, you might have been wondering how the authors would deal with the dimensionality of the data: It is a time series, and the MADE architecture explored above introduces autoregressivity between features, not time steps. So how is the additional temporal autoregressivity to be handled? The answer is: The time dimension is essentially removed. In the authors’ words,

[…] it’s a time sequence however was handled as if every instance had been an i.i.d. pattern from the marginal distribution.

This undoubtedly is beneficial info for our current modeling try, nevertheless it additionally tells us one thing else: We’d need to look past MADE layers for precise time sequence modeling.

Now although let’s have a look at this instance of utilizing MAF for multivariate modeling, with no time or spatial dimension to be taken under consideration.

Following the hints the authors gave us, that is what we do.

Observations: 4,208,261
Variables: 19
$ X1   0.00, 0.01, 0.01, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.07, 0.09,...
$ X2   0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,...
$ X3   0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,...
$ X4   -50.85, -49.40, -40.04, -47.14, -33.58, -48.59, -48.27, -47.14,... 
$ X5   -1.95, -5.53, -16.09, -10.57, -20.79, -11.54, -9.11, -4.56,...
$ X6   -41.82, -42.78, -27.59, -32.28, -33.25, -36.16, -31.31, -16.57,... 
$ X7   1.30, 0.49, 0.00, 4.40, 6.03, 6.03, 5.37, 4.40, 23.98, 2.77,...
$ X8   -4.07, 3.58, -7.16, -11.22, 3.42, 0.33, -7.97, -2.28, -2.12,...
$ X9   -28.73, -34.55, -42.14, -37.94, -34.22, -29.05, -30.34, -24.35,...
$ X10  -13.49, -9.59, -12.52, -7.16, -14.46, -16.74, -8.62, -13.17,...
$ X11  -3.25, 5.37, -5.86, -1.14, 8.31, -1.14, 7.00, -6.34, -0.81,...
$ X12  55139.95, 54395.77, 53960.02, 53047.71, 52700.28, 51910.52,...
$ X13  50669.50, 50046.91, 49299.30, 48907.00, 48330.96, 47609.00,...
$ X14  9626.26, 9433.20, 9324.40, 9170.64, 9073.64, 8982.88, 8860.51,...
$ X15  9762.62, 9591.21, 9449.81, 9305.58, 9163.47, 9021.08, 8966.48,...
$ X16  24544.02, 24137.13, 23628.90, 23101.66, 22689.54, 22159.12,...
$ X17  21420.68, 20930.33, 20504.94, 20101.42, 19694.07, 19332.57,...
$ X18  7650.61, 7498.79, 7369.67, 7285.13, 7156.74, 7067.61, 6976.13,...
$ X19  6928.42, 6800.66, 6697.47, 6578.52, 6468.32, 6385.31, 6300.97,...
# we do not know if we'll find yourself with the identical columns because the authors did,
# however we strive (no less than we do find yourself with 8 columns)
df <- df[,-(1:3)]
hc <- findCorrelation(cor(df), cutoff = 0.985)
df2 <- df[,-c(hc)]

# scale
df2 <- scale(df2)
df2
# A tibble: 4,208,261 x 8
      X4     X5     X8    X9    X13    X16    X17   X18
               
 1 -50.8  -1.95  -4.07 -28.7 50670. 24544. 21421. 7651.
 2 -49.4  -5.53   3.58 -34.6 50047. 24137. 20930. 7499.
 3 -40.0 -16.1   -7.16 -42.1 49299. 23629. 20505. 7370.
 4 -47.1 -10.6  -11.2  -37.9 48907  23102. 20101. 7285.
 5 -33.6 -20.8    3.42 -34.2 48331. 22690. 19694. 7157.
 6 -48.6 -11.5    0.33 -29.0 47609  22159. 19333. 7068.
 7 -48.3  -9.11  -7.97 -30.3 47047. 21932. 19028. 6976.
 8 -47.1  -4.56  -2.28 -24.4 46758. 21504. 18780. 6900.
 9 -42.3  -2.77  -2.12 -27.6 46197. 21125. 18439. 6827.
10 -44.6   3.58  -0.65 -35.5 45652. 20836. 18209. 6790.
# … with 4,208,251 extra rows

Now arrange the info technology course of:

# train-test cut up
n_rows <- nrow(df2) # 4208261
train_ids <- pattern(1:n_rows, 0.5 * n_rows)
x_train <- df2[train_ids, ]
x_test <- df2[-train_ids, ]

# create datasets
batch_size <- 100
train_dataset <- tf$solid(x_train, tf$float32) %>%
  tensor_slices_dataset %>%
  dataset_batch(batch_size)

test_dataset <- tf$solid(x_test, tf$float32) %>%
  tensor_slices_dataset %>%
  dataset_batch(nrow(x_test))

To assemble the movement, the very first thing wanted is the bottom distribution.

base_dist <- tfd_multivariate_normal_diag(loc = rep(0, ncol(df2)))

Now for the movement, by default constructed with batchnorm and permutation of function order.

num_hidden <- 100
dim <- ncol(df2)

use_batchnorm <- TRUE
use_permute <- TRUE
num_mafs <-10
num_layers <- 3 * num_mafs

bijectors <- vector(mode = "listing", size = num_layers)

for (i in seq(1, num_layers, by = 3)) {
  maf <- tfb_masked_autoregressive_flow(
    shift_and_log_scale_fn = tfb_masked_autoregressive_default_template(
      hidden_layers = listing(num_hidden, num_hidden),
      activation = tf$nn$tanh))
  bijectors[[i]] <- maf
  if (use_batchnorm)
    bijectors[[i + 1]] <- tfb_batch_normalization()
  if (use_permute)
    bijectors[[i + 2]] <- tfb_permute((ncol(df2) - 1):0)
}

if (use_permute) bijectors <- bijectors[-num_layers]

movement <- bijectors %>%
  discard(is.null) %>%
  # tfb_chain expects arguments in reverse order of utility
  rev() %>%
  tfb_chain()

target_dist <- tfd_transformed_distribution(
  distribution = base_dist,
  bijector = movement
)

And configuring the optimizer:

optimizer <- tf$prepare$AdamOptimizer(1e-4)

Underneath that isotropic Gaussian we selected as a base distribution, how probably are the info?

base_loglik <- base_dist %>% 
  tfd_log_prob(x_train) %>% 
  tf$reduce_mean()
base_loglik %>% as.numeric()        # -11.33871

base_loglik_test <- base_dist %>% 
  tfd_log_prob(x_test) %>% 
  tf$reduce_mean()
base_loglik_test %>% as.numeric()   # -11.36431

And, simply as a fast sanity examine: What’s the loglikelihood of the info underneath the reworked distribution earlier than any coaching?

target_loglik_pre <-
  target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(x_train) %>% tf$reduce_mean()
target_loglik_pre %>% as.numeric()        # -11.22097

target_loglik_pre_test <-
  target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(x_test) %>% tf$reduce_mean()
target_loglik_pre_test %>% as.numeric()   # -11.36431

The values match – good. Right here now’s the coaching loop. Being impatient, we already maintain checking the loglikelihood on the (full) take a look at set to see if we’re making any progress.

n_epochs <- 10

for (i in 1:n_epochs) {
  
  agg_loglik <- 0
  num_batches <- 0
  iter <- make_iterator_one_shot(train_dataset)
  
  until_out_of_range({
    batch <- iterator_get_next(iter)
    loss <-
      operate()
        - tf$reduce_mean(target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(batch))
    optimizer$reduce(loss)
    
    loglik <- tf$reduce_mean(target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(batch))
    agg_loglik <- agg_loglik + loglik
    num_batches <- num_batches + 1
    
    test_iter <- make_iterator_one_shot(test_dataset)
    test_batch <- iterator_get_next(test_iter)
    loglik_test_current <- target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(test_batch) %>% tf$reduce_mean()
    
    if (num_batches %% 100 == 1)
      cat(
        "Epoch ",
        i,
        ": ",
        "Batch ",
        num_batches,
        ": ",
        (agg_loglik %>% as.numeric()) / num_batches,
        " --- take a look at: ",
        loglik_test_current %>% as.numeric(),
        "n"
      )
  })
}

With each coaching and take a look at units amounting to over 2 million data every, we didn’t have the persistence to run this mannequin till no enchancment occurred for 30 consecutive epochs on the validation set (just like the authors did). Nonetheless, the image we get from one full epoch’s run is fairly clear: The setup appears to work fairly okay.

Epoch  1 :  Batch      1:  -8.212026  --- take a look at:  -10.09264 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   1001:   2.222953  --- take a look at:   1.894102 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   2001:   2.810996  --- take a look at:   2.147804 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   3001:   3.136733  --- take a look at:   3.673271 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   4001:   3.335549  --- take a look at:   4.298822 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   5001:   3.474280  --- take a look at:   4.502975 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   6001:   3.606634  --- take a look at:   4.612468 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   7001:   3.695355  --- take a look at:   4.146113 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   8001:   3.767195  --- take a look at:   3.770533 
Epoch  1 :  Batch   9001:   3.837641  --- take a look at:   4.819314 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  10001:   3.908756  --- take a look at:   4.909763 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  11001:   3.972645  --- take a look at:   3.234356 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  12001:   4.020613  --- take a look at:   5.064850 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  13001:   4.067531  --- take a look at:   4.916662 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  14001:   4.108388  --- take a look at:   4.857317 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  15001:   4.147848  --- take a look at:   5.146242 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  16001:   4.177426  --- take a look at:   4.929565 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  17001:   4.209732  --- take a look at:   4.840716 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  18001:   4.239204  --- take a look at:   5.222693 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  19001:   4.264639  --- take a look at:   5.279918 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  20001:   4.291542  --- take a look at:   5.29119 
Epoch  1 :  Batch  21001:   4.314462  --- take a look at:   4.872157 
Epoch  2 :  Batch      1:   5.212013  --- take a look at:   4.969406 

With these coaching outcomes, we regard the proof of idea as mainly profitable. Nonetheless, from our experiments we additionally need to say that the selection of hyperparameters appears to matter a lot. For instance, use of the relu activation operate as an alternative of tanh resulted within the community mainly studying nothing. (As per the authors, relu labored effective on different datasets that had been z-transformed in simply the identical means.)

Batch normalization right here was compulsory – and this would possibly go for flows usually. The permutation bijectors, then again, didn’t make a lot of a distinction on this dataset. Total the impression is that for flows, we’d both want a “bag of tips” (like is usually mentioned about GANs), or extra concerned architectures (see “Outlook” under).

Lastly, we wind up with an experiment, coming again to our favourite audio information, already featured in two posts: Easy Audio Classification with Keras and Audio classification with Keras: Trying nearer on the non-deep studying components.

Analysing audio information with MAF

The dataset in query consists of recordings of 30 phrases, pronounced by plenty of totally different audio system. In these earlier posts, a convnet was educated to map spectrograms to these 30 lessons. Now as an alternative we need to strive one thing totally different: Practice an MAF on one of many lessons – the phrase “zero,” say – and see if we will use the educated community to mark “non-zero” phrases as much less probably: carry out anomaly detection, in a means. Spoiler alert: The outcomes weren’t too encouraging, and in case you are eager about a activity like this, you would possibly need to contemplate a unique structure (once more, see “Outlook” under).

Nonetheless, we rapidly relate what was performed, as this activity is a pleasant instance of dealing with information the place options fluctuate over a couple of axis.

Preprocessing begins as within the aforementioned earlier posts. Right here although, we explicitly use keen execution, and will generally hard-code recognized values to maintain the code snippets quick.

Audio classification with Keras: Trying nearer on the non-deep studying components, we’d like to coach the community on spectrograms as an alternative of the uncooked time area information.
Utilizing the identical settings for frame_length and frame_step of the Quick Time period Fourier Remodel as in that put up, we’d arrive at information formed variety of frames x variety of FFT coefficients. To make this work with the masked_dense() employed in tfb_masked_autoregressive_flow(), the info would then need to be flattened, yielding a powerful 25186 options within the joint distribution.

With the structure outlined as above within the GAS instance, this result in the community not making a lot progress. Neither did leaving the info in time area kind, with 16000 options within the joint distribution. Thus, we determined to work with the FFT coefficients computed over the whole window as an alternative, leading to 257 joint options.

batch_size <- 100

sampling_rate <- 16000L
data_generator <- operate(df,
                           batch_size) {
  
  ds <- tensor_slices_dataset(df) 
  
  ds <- ds %>%
    dataset_map(operate(obs) {
      wav <-
        decode_wav()(tf$read_file(tf$reshape(obs$fname, listing())))
      samples <- wav$audio[ ,1]
      
      # some wave recordsdata have fewer than 16000 samples
      padding <- listing(listing(0L, sampling_rate - tf$form(samples)[1]))
      padded <- tf$pad(samples, padding)
      
      stft_out <- stft()(padded, 16000L, 1L, 512L)
      magnitude_spectrograms <- tf$abs(stft_out) %>% tf$squeeze()
    })
  
  ds %>% dataset_batch(batch_size)
  
}

ds_train <- data_generator(df_train, batch_size)
batch <- ds_train %>% 
  make_iterator_one_shot() %>%
  iterator_get_next()

dim(batch) # 100 x 257

Coaching then proceeded as on the GAS dataset.

# outline MAF
base_dist <-
  tfd_multivariate_normal_diag(loc = rep(0, dim(batch)[2]))

num_hidden <- 512 
use_batchnorm <- TRUE
use_permute <- TRUE
num_mafs <- 10 
num_layers <- 3 * num_mafs

# retailer bijectors in an inventory
bijectors <- vector(mode = "listing", size = num_layers)

# fill listing, optionally including batchnorm and permute bijectors
for (i in seq(1, num_layers, by = 3)) {
  maf <- tfb_masked_autoregressive_flow(
    shift_and_log_scale_fn = tfb_masked_autoregressive_default_template(
      hidden_layers = listing(num_hidden, num_hidden),
      activation = tf$nn$tanh,
      ))
  bijectors[[i]] <- maf
  if (use_batchnorm)
    bijectors[[i + 1]] <- tfb_batch_normalization()
  if (use_permute)
    bijectors[[i + 2]] <- tfb_permute((dim(batch)[2] - 1):0)
}

if (use_permute) bijectors <- bijectors[-num_layers]
movement <- bijectors %>%
  # probably clear out empty parts (if no batchnorm or no permute)
  discard(is.null) %>%
  rev() %>%
  tfb_chain()

target_dist <- tfd_transformed_distribution(distribution = base_dist,
                                            bijector = movement)

optimizer <- tf$prepare$AdamOptimizer(1e-3)

# prepare MAF
n_epochs <- 100
for (i in 1:n_epochs) {
  agg_loglik <- 0
  num_batches <- 0
  iter <- make_iterator_one_shot(ds_train)
  until_out_of_range({
    batch <- iterator_get_next(iter)
    loss <-
      operate()
        - tf$reduce_mean(target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(batch))
    optimizer$reduce(loss)
    
    loglik <- tf$reduce_mean(target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(batch))
    agg_loglik <- agg_loglik + loglik
    num_batches <- num_batches + 1
    
    loglik_test_current <- 
      target_dist %>% tfd_log_prob(ds_test) %>% tf$reduce_mean()

    if (num_batches %% 20 == 1)
      cat(
        "Epoch ",
        i,
        ": ",
        "Batch ",
        num_batches,
        ": ",
        ((agg_loglik %>% as.numeric()) / num_batches) %>% spherical(1),
        " --- take a look at: ",
        loglik_test_current %>% as.numeric() %>% spherical(1),
        "n"
      )
  })
}

Throughout coaching, we additionally monitored loglikelihoods on three totally different lessons, cat, chook and wow. Listed below are the loglikelihoods from the primary 10 epochs. “Batch” refers back to the present coaching batch (first batch within the epoch), all different values refer to finish datasets (the whole take a look at set and the three units chosen for comparability).

epoch   |   batch  |   take a look at   |   "cat"  |   "chook"  |   "wow"  |
--------|----------|----------|----------|-----------|----------|
1       |   1443.5 |   1455.2 |   1398.8 |    1434.2 |   1546.0 |
2       |   1935.0 |   2027.0 |   1941.2 |    1952.3 |   2008.1 | 
3       |   2004.9 |   2073.1 |   2003.5 |    2000.2 |   2072.1 |
4       |   2063.5 |   2131.7 |   2056.0 |    2061.0 |   2116.4 |        
5       |   2120.5 |   2172.6 |   2096.2 |    2085.6 |   2150.1 |
6       |   2151.3 |   2206.4 |   2127.5 |    2110.2 |   2180.6 | 
7       |   2174.4 |   2224.8 |   2142.9 |    2163.2 |   2195.8 |
8       |   2203.2 |   2250.8 |   2172.0 |    2061.0 |   2221.8 |        
9       |   2224.6 |   2270.2 |   2186.6 |    2193.7 |   2241.8 |
10      |   2236.4 |   2274.3 |   2191.4 |    2199.7 |   2243.8 |        

Whereas this doesn’t look too unhealthy, an entire comparability in opposition to all twenty-nine non-target lessons had “zero” outperformed by seven different lessons, with the remaining twenty-two decrease in loglikelihood. We don’t have a mannequin for anomaly detection, as but.

Outlook

As already alluded to a number of occasions, for information with temporal and/or spatial orderings extra advanced architectures could show helpful. The very profitable PixelCNN household is predicated on masked convolutions, with newer developments bringing additional refinements (e.g. Gated PixelCNN (Oord et al. 2016), PixelCNN++ (Salimans et al. 2017). Consideration, too, could also be masked and thus rendered autoregressive, as employed within the hybrid PixelSNAIL (Chen et al. 2017) and the – not surprisingly given its title – transformer-based ImageTransformer (Parmar et al. 2018).

To conclude, – whereas this put up was within the intersection of flows and autoregressivity – and final not least the use therein of TFP bijectors – an upcoming one would possibly dive deeper into autoregressive fashions particularly… and who is aware of, maybe come again to the audio information for a fourth time.

Chen, Xi, Nikhil Mishra, Mostafa Rohaninejad, and Pieter Abbeel. 2017. “PixelSNAIL: An Improved Autoregressive Generative Mannequin.” CoRR abs/1712.09763. http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09763.
Dinh, Laurent, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, and Samy Bengio. 2016. “Density Estimation Utilizing Actual NVP.” CoRR abs/1605.08803. http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08803.
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