Ye, Fei and Bors, Adrian Gheorghe orcid.org/0000-0001-7838-0021 (2023) Lifelong Mixture of Variational Autoencoders. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. pp. 461-474. ISSN 2162-237X
Abstract
In this paper, we propose an end-to-end lifelong learning mixture of experts. Each expert is implemented by a Variational Autoencoder (VAE). The experts in the mixture system are jointly trained by maximizing a mixture of individual component evidence lower bounds (MELBO) on the loglikelihood of the given training samples. The mixing coefficients in the mixture model, control the contributions of each expert in the global representation. These are sampled from a Dirichlet distribution whose parameters are determined through nonparametric estimation during the lifelong learning. The model can learn new tasks fast when these are similar to those previously learnt. The proposed Lifelong mixture of VAE (LMVAE) expands its architecture with new components when learning a completely new task. After the training, our model can automatically determine the relevant expert to be used when fed with new data samples. This mechanism benefits both the memory efficiency and the required computational cost as only one expert model is used during the inference. The L-MVAE inference model is able to perform interpolations in the joint latent space across the data domains associated with different tasks and is shown to be efficient for disentangled learning representation.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2021 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2024 00:19 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3096457 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3096457 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176925 |