August 11th (Wed),10:00am] Personalization in Deep Generative Models

Generative modeling is a class of statistical methods designed to capture properties of the underlying data distribution and holds promise in a variety of settings such as semi-supervised learning and unsupervised representation learning. However, the flurry of recent successes in deep generative modeling places less emphasis on realistic scenarios where the model needs to adapt to specific target distributions or individual preferences at test time. In this talk, I will talk about two applications of deep generative models in which adaptation is particularly important — fairness and music generation. For both works, I will discuss how to efficiently leverage unlabeled data as a key source of weak supervision, and elaborate upon how to utilize this signal for targeted generation tasks.