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Flow Models for Arbitrary Conditional Likelihoods
Yang Li, Shoaib Akbar, Junier B. Oliva
Understanding the dependencies among features of a dataset is at the core of most unsupervised learning tasks. However, a majority of generative modeling approaches are focused solely on the joint distribution p(x) and utilize models where it is intractable to obtain the conditional distribution of some arbitrary subset of features xᵤ given the rest of the observed covariates xₒ: p(xᵤ |xₒ). Traditional conditional approaches provide a model for a fixed set of covariates conditioned on another fixed set of observed covariates. Instead, in this work we develop a model that is capable of yielding all conditional distributions p(xᵤ |xₒ) (for arbitrary xᵤ) via tractable conditional likelihoods. We propose a novel extension of (change of variables based) flow generative models, arbitrary conditioning flow models (AC-Flow), that can be conditioned on arbitrary subsets of observed covariates, which was previously infeasible. We apply AC-Flow to the imputation of features, and also develop a unified platform for both multiple and single imputation by introducing an auxiliary objective that provides a principled single "best guess" for flow models. Extensive empirical evaluations show that our models achieve state-of-the-art performance in both single and multiple imputation across image inpainting and feature imputation in synthetic and real-world datasets. Code is available at https://github.com/lupalab/ACFlow.
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