Data Interpolations in Deep Generative Models under Non-Simply-Connected Manifold Topology

Abstract: Exploiting the deep generative model's remarkable ability of learning the data-manifold structure, some recent researches proposed a geometric data interpolation method based on the geodesic curves on the learned data-manifold. However, this interpolation method often gives poor results due to a topological difference between the model and the dataset. The model defines a family of simply-connected manifolds, whereas the dataset generally contains disconnected regions or holes that make them non-simply-connected. To compensate this difference, we propose a novel density regularizer that make the interpolation path circumvent the holes denoted by low probability density. We confirm that our method gives consistently better interpolation results from the experiments with real-world image datasets.