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We present a hierarchical VAE that, for the first time, generates samples quickly while outperforming the PixelCNN in log-likelihood on all natural image benchmarks. We begin by observing that, in theory, VAEs can actually represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Rewon Child

Learning disentangled representations leads to interpretable models and facilitates data generation with style transfer, which has been extensively studied on static data such as images in an unsupervised learning framework. However, only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Jun Han , Martin Renqiang Min , Ligong Han , Li Erran Li , Xuan Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel approach for training a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) on a highly imbalanced data set. The proposed training of a high-resolution VAE model begins with the training of a low-resolution core model, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Dmitry Utyamishev , Inna Partin-Vaisband

We propose a novel algorithm for quantizing continuous latent representations in trained models. Our approach applies to deep probabilistic models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), and enables both data and model compression. Unlike…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Yibo Yang , Robert Bamler , Stephan Mandt

Aerosol-cloud--radiation interactions remain among the most uncertain components of the Earth's climate system, in partdue to the high dimensionality of aerosol state representations and the difficulty of obtaining complete \textit{in situ}…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Ehsan Saleh , Saba Ghaffari , Jeffrey H. Curtis , Lekha Patel , Peter A. Bosler , Nicole Riemer , Matthew West

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are capable of learning latent representations for high dimensional data. However, due to the i.i.d. assumption, VAEs only optimize the singleton variational distributions and fail to account for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Tony Jebara , Nicholas Ruozzi

Constructing a compressed latent space through a variational autoencoder (VAE) is the key for efficient 3D diffusion models. This paper introduces COD-VAE that encodes 3D shapes into a COmpact set of 1D latent vectors without sacrificing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 In Cho , Youngbeom Yoo , Subin Jeon , Seon Joo Kim

Deep generative models have been used in recent years to learn coherent latent representations in order to synthesize high-quality images. In this work, we propose a neural network to learn a generative model for sampling consistent indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Pulak Purkait , Christopher Zach , Ian Reid

Existing video Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) generally overlook the similarity between frame contents, leading to redundant latent modeling. In this paper, we propose decoupled VAE (DeCo-VAE) to achieve compact latent representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiangchen Yin , Jiahui Yuan , Zhangchi Hu , Wenzhang Sun , Jie Chen , Xiaozhen Qiao , Hao Li , Xiaoyan Sun

Given the three dimensional complexity of a video signal, training a robust and diverse GAN based video generative model is onerous due to large stochasticity involved in data space. Learning disentangled representations of the data help to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Sai Hemanth Kasaraneni

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is a new and exciting frontier and the possibilities are endless. With deep learning approaches beating human performances in many areas, the logical next step is to attempt their application in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ally Salim

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in face manipulation task with the advance of GANs and VAEs paradigms, but the outputs are sometimes limited to low-resolution and lack of diversity. In this work, we propose Additive Focal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Shengju Qian , Kwan-Yee Lin , Wayne Wu , Yangxiaokang Liu , Quan Wang , Fumin Shen , Chen Qian , Ran He

How to improve generative modeling by better exploiting spatial regularities and coherence in images? We introduce a novel neural network for building image generators (decoders) and apply it to variational autoencoders (VAEs). In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Đorđe Miladinović , Aleksandar Stanić , Stefan Bauer , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Joachim M. Buhmann

We introduce a novel generative autoencoder network model that learns to encode and reconstruct images with high quality and resolution, and supports smooth random sampling from the latent space of the encoder. Generative adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ari Heljakka , Arno Solin , Juho Kannala

Normalizing flows, autoregressive models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep energy-based models are among competing likelihood-based frameworks for deep generative learning. Among them, VAEs have the advantage of fast and tractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-11 Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

Recently a type of neural networks called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been proposed as a solution for fast generation of simulation-like datasets, in an attempt to bypass heavy computations and expensive cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Marion Ullmo , Aurélien Decelle , Nabila Aghanim

Hierarchical Bayesian methods can unify many related tasks (e.g. k-shot classification, conditional and unconditional generation) as inference within a single generative model. However, when this generative model is expressed as a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Luke B. Hewitt , Maxwell I. Nye , Andreea Gane , Tommi Jaakkola , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

We consider the problem of image representation for the tasks of unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning. In those learning tasks, the raw image vectors may not provide enough representation for their intrinsic structures due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang , Yong Liu

Given an image dataset, we are often interested in finding data generative factors that encode semantic content independently from pose variables such as rotation and translation. However, current disentanglement approaches do not impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Tristan Bepler , Ellen D. Zhong , Kotaro Kelley , Edward Brignole , Bonnie Berger