Notes on Latent Structure Models and SPIGOT
These notes aim to shed light on the recently proposed structured projected intermediate gradient optimization technique (SPIGOT, Peng et al., 2018). SPIGOT is a variant of the straight-through estimator (Bengio et al., 2013) which bypasses gradients of the argmax function by back-propagating a surrogate "gradient." We provide a new interpretation to the proposed gradient and put this technique into perspective, linking it to other methods for training neural networks with discrete latent variables. As a by-product, we suggest alternate variants of SPIGOT which will be further explored in future work.
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