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1.-The paper explores how different evaluation methods for generative models relate to each other and their suitability for various applications.

2.-Generative models can be used for compression, content generation, texture synthesis, image reconstruction, and unsupervised representation learning.

3.-Log-likelihood is often hard to evaluate, leading to alternative evaluation methods and approximations.

4.-Dissatisfaction with progress in generative modeling for unsupervised representation learning and content generation also led to alternative evaluation methods.

5.-The paper argues that success in one application doesn't necessarily translate to others, so evaluation should consider the intended application.

6.-The choice of training objective (e.g. maximum likelihood, MMD, JS divergence, adversarial networks) impacts the trade-offs and results.

7.-While theoretically equivalent given the right model and infinite data, in practice the objectives lead to different generative model behaviors.

8.-Evaluating generative models by drawing samples and examining them is an intuitive diagnostic tool but insufficient to assess density estimation or representations.

9.-Simply generating nice samples is easy (e.g. storing and retrieving training images) but doesn't reflect learning or density estimation capabilities.

10.-Looking at nearest neighbors to samples is used to detect overfitting, but small image changes can yield very different neighbors.

11.-Euclidean distance used for nearest neighbors doesn't align well with perceptual image similarity.

12.-Nearest neighbor tests mainly just detect lookup table behavior rather than meaningful generalization in generative models.

13.-Parzen window estimates, building a tractable model from model samples, are used as a log-likelihood approximation.

14.-Parzen window estimates are a very poor approximation of log-likelihood even in simple low-dimensional settings with many samples.

15.-Parzen window estimates also fail to provide meaningful rankings of models compared to log-likelihood.

16.-Log-likelihood should be directly evaluated or properly approximated to assess density estimation performance.

17.-Log-likelihoods can be infinite when fitting densities to discretized data if the model detects the discretization.

18.-Adding uniform noise to discretized data bounds the continuous log-likelihood based on the discrete model's log-likelihood.

19.-The discrete model's log-likelihood relates to its compression performance on the discrete data.

20.-Sample quality and log-likelihood capture quite different properties of a generative model.

21.-Mixing an excellent model with 99% noise only reduces log-likelihood slightly (<4.61 nats) while drastically changing samples.

22.-Mixture models with 1% good model and 99% noise have nearly identical compression but very different samples.

23.-Mixture models with 99% good model and 1% noise can have nearly identical samples but very different compression.

24.-A similar argument shows that sample quality and classification performance using the model representations can be mixed arbitrarily.

25.-Generative models should be evaluated on the intended application (e.g. log-likelihood for compression, samples for content generation, psychophysics for perception).

26.-Avoid Parzen window estimates.

27.-Don't rely solely on nearest neighbor tests to assess overfitting.

28.-Use samples as a diagnostic tool or when directly relevant to the application, not as a general proxy.

29.-For unsupervised representation learning, evaluate the learned representations on downstream tasks.

30.-Careful generative model evaluation is crucial since performance on different applications does not necessarily correlate.

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