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HiLLoC: Lossless Image Compression with Hierarchical Latent Variable Models

arXiv 1912.09953 ↗First posted 20 Dec 2019eess.IV cs.CV cs.LGcited by 37

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Abstract (arXiv)

We make the following striking observation: fully convolutional VAE models trained on 32x32 ImageNet can generalize well, not just to 64x64 but also to far larger photographs, with no changes to the model. We use this property, applying fully convolutional models to lossless compression, demonstrating a method to scale the VAE-based 'Bits-Back with ANS' algorithm for lossless compression to large color photographs, and achieving state of the art for compression of full size ImageNet images. We release Craystack, an open source library for convenient prototyping of lossless compression using probabilistic models, along with full implementations of all of our compression results.

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  1. 2021Variational Diffusion Modelscited by 1,153
  2. 2021Autoregressive Diffusion Modelscited by 210
  3. 2022An Introduction to Neural Data Compressioncited by 79
  4. 2022Lossy Image Compression with Quantized Hierarchical VAEscited by 35
  5. 2021On the Out-of-distribution Generalization of Probabilistic Image Modellingcited by 33
  6. 2023QARV: Quantization-Aware ResNet VAE for Lossy Image Compressioncited by 32
  7. 2021iVPF: Numerical Invertible Volume Preserving Flow for Efficient Lossless Compressioncited by 27
  8. 2021iFlow: Numerically Invertible Flows for Efficient Lossless Compression via a Uniform Codercited by 26
  9. 2022Deep Lossy Plus Residual Coding for Lossless and Near-lossless Image Compressioncited by 22
  10. 2021Lossless Compression with Probabilistic Circuitscited by 20
  11. 2021Improving Lossless Compression Rates via Monte Carlo Bits-Back Codingcited by 19
  12. 2022RIDDLE: Lidar Data Compression with Range Image Deep Delta Encodingcited by 19
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  1. 2021Partition and Code: learning how to compress graphscited by 10
  2. 2022Generalization Gap in Amortized Inferencecited by 10
  3. 2021IB-DRR: Incremental Learning with Information-Back Discrete Representation Replaycited by 9
  4. 2021Lossless compression with state space models using bits back codingcited by 6
  5. 2022Improving VAE-based Representation Learningcited by 6
  6. 2024CALLIC: Content Adaptive Learning for Lossless Image Compressioncited by 6
  7. 2021Lossless Image Compression Using a Multi-Scale Progressive Statistical Modelcited by 5
  8. 2022Split Hierarchical Variational Compressioncited by 5
  9. 2022PILC: Practical Image Lossless Compression with an End-to-end GPU Oriented Neural Frameworkcited by 5
  10. 2021Lossless Compression with Latent Variable Modelscited by 4
  11. 2021Compressing Multisets with Large Alphabets using Bits-Back Codingcited by 4
  12. 2022Parallel Neural Local Lossless Compressioncited by 4
  13. 2022Practical Learned Lossless JPEG Recompression with Multi-Level Cross-Channel Entropy Model in the DCT Domaincited by 4
  14. 2022Fast Lossless Neural Compression with Integer-Only Discrete Flowscited by 4
  15. 2025Generative Modeling with Bayesian Sample Inferencecited by 4
  16. 2021Discrete Denoising Flowscited by 2
  17. 2025LVPNet: A Latent-variable-based Prediction-driven End-to-end Framework for Lossless Compression of Medical Imagescited by 2
  18. 2024Point Cloud Compression with Bits-back Codingcited by 1
  19. 2025Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searchcited by 1
  20. 2025SEEC: Segmentation-Assisted Multi-Entropy Models for Learned Lossless Image Compressioncited by 1
  21. 2021OSOA: One-Shot Online Adaptation of Deep Generative Models for Lossless Compressioncited by 0
  22. 2022Multi-Scale Architectures Matter: On the Adversarial Robustness of Flow-based Lossless Compressioncited by 0
  23. 2022GOLLIC: Learning Global Context beyond Patches for Lossless High-Resolution Image Compressioncited by 0
  24. 2022Verified Reversible Programming for Verified Lossless Compressioncited by 0
  25. 2024FLLIC: Functionally Lossless Image Compressioncited by 0