Practical Lossless Compression with Latent Variables using Bits Back Coding

2 code implementations • ICLR 2019 • James Townsend, Tom Bird, David Barber

Deep latent variable models have seen recent success in many data domains.

Image Compression

Spread Divergence

no code implementations • 21 Nov 2018 • Mingtian Zhang, Peter Hayes, Tom Bird, Raza Habib, David Barber

For distributions $\mathbb{P}$ and $\mathbb{Q}$ with different supports or undefined densities, the divergence $\textrm{D}(\mathbb{P}||\mathbb{Q})$ may not exist.