In plain words: MintNet stacks masked convolutions—layers that see only part of the input—using rules that keep the network reversible, so it runs backward and its probability is easy to compute for generation. It matched ResNets on classification and reached competitive likelihoods on three datasets.
Abstract
We propose a new way of constructing invertible neural networks by combining simple building blocks with a novel set of composition rules. This leads to a rich set of invertible architectures, including those similar to ResNets. Inversion is achieved with a locally convergent iterative procedure that is parallelizable and very fast in practice. Additionally, the determinant of the Jacobian can be computed analytically and efficiently, enabling their generative use as flow models. To demonstrate their flexibility, we show that our invertible neural networks are competitive with ResNets on MNIST and CIFAR-10 classification. When trained as generative models, our invertible networks achieve competitive likelihoods on MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet 32x32, with bits per dimension of 0.98, 3.32 and 4.06 respectively.
Yang Song, Chenlin Meng, Stefano Ermon
arXiv:1907.07945 · cs.LG, cs.CV, stat.ML · submitted Jul 18, 2019 · updated Oct 29, 2019
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