Poster
GILBO: One Metric to Measure Them All
Alexander Alemi · Ian Fischer
Room 210 #57
Keywords: [ Latent Variable Models ] [ Generative Models ] [ Adversarial Networks ] [ Information Theory ]
We propose a simple, tractable lower bound on the mutual information contained in the joint generative density of any latent variable generative model: the GILBO (Generative Information Lower BOund). It offers a data-independent measure of the complexity of the learned latent variable description, giving the log of the effective description length. It is well-defined for both VAEs and GANs. We compute the GILBO for 800 GANs and VAEs each trained on four datasets (MNIST, FashionMNIST, CIFAR-10 and CelebA) and discuss the results.
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