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Due to their unsupervised training and uncertainty estimation, deep Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have become powerful tools for reconstruction-based Time Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD). Existing VAE-based TSAD methods, either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhangkai Wu , Longbing Cao , Qi Zhang , Junxian Zhou , Hui Chen

A probability distribution allows practitioners to uncover hidden structure in the data and build models to solve supervised learning problems using limited data. The focus of this report is on Variational autoencoders, a method to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Vasanth Kalingeri

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a simple and efficient generative artificial intelligence method for modeling complex probability distributions of various types of data, such as images and texts. However, it suffers some main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xi Chen , Shaofan Li

We consider the problem of learning Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), i.e., a type of deep generative model, from data with missing values. Such data is omnipresent in real-world applications of machine learning because complete data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Timur Sudak , Sebastian Tschiatschek

We propose a theoretical approach towards the training numerical stability of Variational AutoEncoders (VAE). Our work is motivated by recent studies empowering VAEs to reach state of the art generative results on complex image datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 David Dehaene , Rémy Brossard

Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) has been widely applied as a fundamental generative model in machine learning. For complex samples like imagery objects or scenes, however, VAE suffers from the dimensional dilemma between reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Deli Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Bo Zhang

3D geometric contents are becoming increasingly popular. In this paper, we study the problem of analyzing deforming 3D meshes using deep neural networks. Deforming 3D meshes are flexible to represent 3D animation sequences as well as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Qingyang Tan , Lin Gao , Yu-Kun Lai , Shihong Xia

We propose a new structure for the variational auto-encoders (VAEs) prior, with the weakly informative multivariate Student's t-distribution. In the proposed model all distribution parameters are trained, thereby allowing for a more robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Najmeh Abiri , Mattias Ohlsson

The variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a deep latent variable model that has two neural networks in an autoencoder-like architecture; one of them parameterizes the model's likelihood. Fitting its parameters via maximum likelihood (ML) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Michalis K. Titsias , Taylan Cemgil , Arnaud Doucet

We introduce a novel one-parameter variational objective that lower bounds the data evidence and enables the estimation of approximate fractional posteriors. We extend this framework to hierarchical construction and Bayes posteriors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kian Ming A. Chai , Edwin V. Bonilla

Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

Auto-encoders are perhaps the best-known non-probabilistic methods for representation learning. They are conceptually simple and easy to train. Recent theoretical work has shed light on their ability to capture manifold structure, and drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Graham W. Taylor

Image generation has advanced rapidly over the past decade, yet the literature seems fragmented across different models and application domains. This paper aims to offer a comprehensive survey of breakthrough image generation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rouzbeh Shirvani

Understanding the structure of complex, nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals is a central challenge in scientific data analysis. In many domains, such as speech and biomedical signal processing, the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Aamna Al Shehhi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that are widely used for a number of downstream tasks. While it has been demonstrated that VAE training can suffer from a number of pathologies, existing literature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-17 Yaniv Yacoby , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that have been widely used in various fields, including image and text generation. However, one of the known challenges in using VAEs is the model's sensitivity to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriela Sejnova , Michal Vavrecka , Karla Stepanova

The Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) is one of the most used unsupervised machine learning models. But although the default choice of a Gaussian distribution for both the prior and posterior represents a mathematically convenient distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-28 Tim R. Davidson , Luca Falorsi , Nicola De Cao , Thomas Kipf , Jakub M. Tomczak

We present a new method to visualize data ensembles by constructing structured probabilistic representations in latent spaces, i.e., lower-dimensional representations of spatial data features. Our approach transforms the spatial features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Cenyang Wu , Qinhan Yu , Liang Zhou

We develop data-driven methods incorporating geometric and topological information to learn parsimonious representations of nonlinear dynamics from observations. The approaches learn nonlinear state-space models of the dynamics for general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ryan Lopez , Paul J. Atzberger

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) have proven to be a well suited tool for performing dimensionality reduction by extracting latent variables lying in a potentially much smaller dimensional space than the data. Their ability to capture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Clément Chadebec , Clément Mantoux , Stéphanie Allassonnière