Authors
- Yuhta Takida
- Takashi Shibuya
- Wei-Hsiang Liao
- Chieh-Hsin Lai
- Junki Ohmura*
- Toshimitsu Uesaka
- Naoki Murata
- Shusuke Takahashi*
- Toshiyuki Kumakura*
- Yuki Mitsufuji
* External authors
Venue
- ICML 2022
Date
- 2022
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SQ-VAE: Variational Bayes on Discrete Representation with Self-annealed Stochastic Quantization
Junki Ohmura*
Shusuke Takahashi*
Toshiyuki Kumakura*
* External authors
ICML 2022
2022
Abstract
One noted issue of vector-quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) is that the learned discrete representation uses only a fraction of the full capacity of the codebook, also known as codebook collapse. We hypothesize that the training scheme of VQ-VAE, which involves some carefully designed heuristics, underlies this issue. In this paper, we propose a new training scheme that extends the standard VAE via novel stochastic dequantization and quantization, called stochastically quantized variational autoencoder (SQ-VAE). In SQ-VAE, we observe a trend that the quantization is stochastic at the initial stage of the training but gradually converges toward a deterministic quantization, which we call self-annealing. Our experiments show that SQ-VAE improves codebook utilization without using common heuristics. Furthermore, we empirically show that SQ-VAE is superior to VAE and VQ-VAE in vision- and speech-related tasks.
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