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On PAC-Bayesian reconstruction guarantees for VAEs

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Despite its wide use and empirical successes, the theoretical understanding and study of the behaviour and performance of the variational autoencoder (VAE) have only emerged in the past few years. We contribute to this recent line of work by analysing the VAE's reconstruction ability for unseen test data, leveraging arguments from the PAC-Bayes theory. We provide generalisation bounds on the theoretical reconstruction error, and provide insights on the regularisation effect of VAE objectives. We illustrate our theoretical results with supporting experiments on classical benchmark datasets.
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hal-03587178 , version 1 (24-02-2022)

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Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif, Yuyang Shi, Arnaud Doucet, Benjamin Guedj. On PAC-Bayesian reconstruction guarantees for VAEs. 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2022, Mar 2022, Valencia / Virtual, Spain. ⟨hal-03587178⟩
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