多源数据训练能提升生成模型性能,理论揭示其关键条件。
A Theory for Conditional Generative Modeling on Multiple Data Sources
- 基于括号数推导多源条件生成的误差上界
- 多源共享相似性时,性能优于单源训练
- 适用于大模型、高维数据的理论分析框架
大型生成模型的成功推动了利用海量多源数据提升模型能力的新范式,但各数据源间的交互机制仍缺乏理论分析。本文首次对条件生成建模中的多源训练进行严格理论研究,将每个条件视为独立数据源。通过括号数建立条件最大似然估计在平均总变差距离下的分布估计误差上界,证明当源分布具有相似性且模型足够表达时,多源训练可获得比单源更紧的误差界。进一步在条件高斯模型及自回归与灵活能量模型中实例化理论,刻画其括号数特性。结果表明,源数量越多、分布越相似,多源训练优势越显著。仿真与真实数据实验验证了理论结论,代码已公开于:https://github.com/ML-GSAI/Multi-Source-GM。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The success of large generative models has driven a paradigm shift, leveraging massive multi-source data to enhance model capabilities. However, the interaction among these sources remains theoretically underexplored. This paper takes the first step toward a rigorous analysis of multi-source training in conditional generative modeling, where each condition represents a distinct data source. Specifically, we establish a general distribution estimation error bound in average total variation distance for conditional maximum likelihood estimation based on the bracketing number. Our result shows that when source distributions share certain similarities and the model is expressive enough, multi-source training guarantees a sharper bound than single-source training. We further instantiate the general theory on conditional Gaussian estimation and deep generative models including autoregressive and flexible energy-based models, by characterizing their bracketing numbers. The results highlight that the number of sources and similarity among source distributions improve the advantage of multi-source training. Simulations and real-world experiments are conducted to validate the theory, with code available at: https://github.com/ML-GSAI/Multi-Source-GM.
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