SUBJECT: Relationship Status Report – Prince Alice & Princess Ange
DATE: October 26, 2023
STATUS: RESOLVED (Fixed)
2. Related Work
GAP: uses global attention to modulate learned priors for improved context-aware generation.
GVENet: fuses graph-structured data with visual features for richer embeddings.
ALICE: augments adversarial autoencoders with conditional entropy terms to improve inference consistency.
PRINCESS: extracts invariant components for robust reconstruction and controllable synthesis.
ANGy-FIXED (proposed): an attention-guided normalization gating (ANGy) module with a fixed-stability training schedule (FIXED).
The Narrative of Alice (Inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” and royal fairy tales)
Imagine a princess named Alice, not the curious girl from Oxford, but a ruler of a small kingdom called Gwenet (a fictional blend of Gwynedd, Wales, and a royal lineage). Alice is known as “Princess Angry” because a gap – a missing piece of her kingdom’s ancient pact with the fairies – has caused her people to suffer. gap gvenet alice princess angy fixed
The Gap: A stolen magical jewel or a broken promise from a neighboring realm.
The Anger: Her frustration manifests as storms, short decrees, and isolation.
The Fix: Through a quest or an apology, the gap is closed (the jewel returned / the vow renewed). Alice’s anger subsides, and she becomes a wise queen.
5. Pseudocode
# High-level training loop
for epoch in range(E):
for batch in data:
f_v = E_v(x_v); f_g = E_g(x_g)
f = CrossModalTransformer(concat(f_v,f_g))
c_glob = P_gap(f)
f' = ANGy(f, c_glob)
z = Reparametrize(μ(f'), σ(f'))
c, s = SplitLatent(z)
x_rec = Dec(z)
L_rec = ReconLoss(x, x_rec)
L_kl = KL(q(z)||p(z|c_glob))
L_adv = ALICE_adversarial_loss(...)
L_inv = InvarianceLoss(c)
L = weighted_sum(...)
Update encoder/decoder via grad(L)
Update discriminator via adversarial steps