universome / text-vae

Experiments with text VAE

This is a repo with some experiments on text VAE.

Random thoughts:

• Try discrete latent code. Try other distributions for latent code.
• What if encoder produces matrix and we transform noise with this matrix? Or transform word embeddings? Will it be equivalent to the current approach? For any distribution?
• How do we do clustering with GANs?
• Try k-means/GMM on top of TF-IDF features as a baseline.
• Can we force independence on z by somehow minimizing covariances?
• How can we formulate "disentaglement" more formally? Is it just variable independence?
• Yes/no glasses, yes/no smiling and all of them are different. For each/some normal attribute we should keep a binary attribute, denoting its off/on state.
• Group latent dimensions into inter-dependent blocks and allow covariance in each block. Our covariance matrix is a block matrix.
• When using categorical prior, we do not want to specify, how many categories there are. Can we give a lot of categories, but make it a pain to use a new category each time? So model will try to be compact. Or it is happening already in normal KL loss?