2016/08/08 by Antonio Vergari, Vergari, Antonio, Nicola Di Mauro +3
Computer Science · #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis #Topic Modeling #Machine Learning in Healthcare
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1608.02341
Probabilistic models learned as density estimators can be exploited in representation learning beside being toolboxes used to answer inference queries only. However, how to extract useful representations highly depends on the particular model involved. We argue that tractable inference, i.e. inference that can be computed in polynomial time, can enable general schemes to extract features from black box models. We plan to investigate how Tractable Probabilistic Models (TPMs) can be exploited to generate embeddings by random query evaluations. We devise two experimental designs to assess and compare different TPMs as feature extractors in an unsupervised representation learning framework. We show some experimental results on standard image datasets by applying such a method to Sum-Product Networks and Mixture of Trees as tractable models generating embeddings.