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Compositional Generative Modeling: A Single Model is Not All You Need

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arxiv 2402.01103 v3 pith:24LQLOOO submitted 2024-02-02 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CVcs.RO

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Large monolithic generative models trained on massive amounts of data have become an increasingly dominant approach in AI research. In this paper, we argue that we should instead construct large generative systems by composing smaller generative models together. We show how such a compositional generative approach enables us to learn distributions in a more data-efficient manner, enabling generalization to parts of the data distribution unseen at training time. We further show how this enables us to program and construct new generative models for tasks completely unseen at training. Finally, we show that in many cases, we can discover separate compositional components from data.

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