README.md

Cooperative Training

Experiment Code for Paper ``CoT: Cooperative Training for Generative Modeling of Discrete Data''

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• tensorflow >= 1.6.0 (Make sure your CuDNN version matches tensorflow version! Otherwise CuDNNLSTM may not work properly!)

Introduction

We propose a new paradigm of algorithm for training tractable explicit density generative models like RNN language models.

The research paper CoT: Cooperative Training for Generative Modeling of Discrete Data is now available on arXiv and has been accepted by ICML 2019 as a conference paper.

Usage

We reproduce example codes to repeat the synthetic Turing test experiment with evaluations of NLL_test, NLL_oracle, balanced NLL and JSD(P || G) by the oracle model.

$ python3 cot.py

Start Cooperative Training...
batch:   0      nll_oracle   11.429975
batch:	 0      nll_test     8.524782
cooptrain epoch# 0  jsd      8.365606
batch:   100    nll_oracle   10.475937
batch:	 100    nll_test     7.9382834
cooptrain epoch# 1  jsd      7.330582
batch:   200    nll_oracle   10.38681
batch:	 200    nll_test     7.868909
... ...