In plain words: The system simply memorizes its training examples word for word or pixel for pixel, then recalls them when asked to generate, like reciting a learned poem. Its outputs matched the training examples so closely that no statistical test could tell them apart.
Abstract · MemGEN: Memory is All You Need
We propose a new learning paradigm called Deep Memory. It has the potential to completely revolutionize the Machine Learning field. Surprisingly, this paradigm has not been reinvented yet, unlike Deep Learning. At the core of this approach is the \textit{Learning By Heart} principle, well studied in primary schools all over the world. Inspired by poem recitation, or by $π$ decimal memorization, we propose a concrete algorithm that mimics human behavior. We implement this paradigm on the task of generative modeling, and apply to images, natural language and even the $π$ decimals as long as one can print them as text. The proposed algorithm even generated this paper, in a one-shot learning setting. In carefully designed experiments, we show that the generated samples are indistinguishable from the training examples, as measured by any statistical tests or metrics.
Sylvain Gelly, Karol Kurach, Marcin Michalski, Xiaohua Zhai
arXiv:1803.11203 · cs.LG · submitted Mar 29, 2018
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