On the Information Theoretic Distance Measures and Bidirectional Helmholtz Machines

07/16/2018

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by   Mahdi Azarafrooz, et al.

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By establishing a connection between bi-directional Helmholtz machines and information theory, we propose a generalized Helmholtz machine. Theoretical and experimental results show that given shallow architectures, the generalized model outperforms the previous ones substantially.