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We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-08 Martin Arjovsky , Soumith Chintala , Léon Bottou

Current state-of-the-art generative approaches frequently rely on a two-stage training procedure, where an autoencoder (often a VAE) first performs dimensionality reduction, followed by training a generative model on the learned latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Gianluigi Silvestri , Luca Ambrogioni

Diabetic retinopathy grading is inherently ordinal and long-tailed, with minority stages being scarce, heterogeneous, and clinically critical to detect accurately. Conventional methods often rely on isotropic Gaussian priors and symmetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Nagur Shareef Shaik , Teja Krishna Cherukuri , Adnan Masood , Ehsan Adeli , Dong Hye Ye

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

Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAE)[1] provide an unsupervised model for learning discrete representations by combining vector quantization and autoencoders. In this paper, we study the use of VQ-VAE for representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-05 Hanwei Wu , Markus Flierl

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are a powerful alternative to matrix factorization for recommendation. A common technique in VAE-based collaborative filtering (CF) consists in applying binary input masking to user interaction vectors, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Tung-Long Vuong , Julien Monteil , Hien Dang , Volodymyr Vaskovych , Trung Le , Vu Nguyen

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew Kiruluta

Most visual generative models compress images into a latent space before applying diffusion or autoregressive modelling. Yet, existing approaches such as VAEs and foundation model aligned encoders implicitly constrain the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sen Ye , Jianning Pei , Mengde Xu , Shuyang Gu , Chunyu Wang , Liwei Wang , Han Hu

We propose a novel generative model within the Bayesian non-parametric learning (BNPL) framework to address some notable failure modes in generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs)--these being overfitting in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Forough Fazeli-Asl , Michael Minyi Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successful in producing outstanding results in areas as diverse as image, video, and text generation. Building on these successes, a large number of empirical studies have validated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Gérard Biau , Maxime Sangnier , Ugo Tanielian

We introduce a new method for training generative adversarial networks by applying the Wasserstein-2 metric proximal on the generators. The approach is based on Wasserstein information geometry. It defines a parametrization invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Alex Tong Lin , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Guido Montufar

An important task in quantum generative machine learning is to model the probability distribution of measurements of many-body quantum systems. Classical generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Anantha Rao , Dhiraj Madan , Anupama Ray , Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy , M. S. Santhanam

We propose Tree Variational Autoencoder (TreeVAE), a new generative hierarchical clustering model that learns a flexible tree-based posterior distribution over latent variables. TreeVAE hierarchically divides samples according to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Julia Vogt

We introduce an approach for training Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) that are certifiably robust to adversarial attack. Specifically, we first derive actionable bounds on the minimal size of an input perturbation required to change a VAE's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-26 Ben Barrett , Alexander Camuto , Matthew Willetts , Tom Rainforth

In this paper, we develop a Wasserstein autoencoder (WAE) with a hyperspherical prior for multimodal data in the application of inertial confinement fusion. Unlike a typical hyperspherical generative model that requires computationally…

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models with the salient ability to perform inference. Here, we introduce a quantum variational autoencoder (QVAE): a VAE whose latent generative process is implemented as a quantum…

People can easily imagine the potential sound while seeing an event. This natural synchronization between audio and visual signals reveals their intrinsic correlations. To this end, we propose to learn the audio-visual correlations from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Hugo Latapie , Yi Yang , Yan Yan

The Wasserstein distance received a lot of attention recently in the community of machine learning, especially for its principled way of comparing distributions. It has found numerous applications in several hard problems, such as domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Mélanie Ducoffe

Recent progress in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on efficient data representations, often featuring encoder-decoder architectures. We formalize the mathematical problem of finding the optimal encoder-decoder pair and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Semyon Malamud , Teng Andrea Xu , Antoine Didisheim

The variational autoencoder (VAE) typically employs a standard normal prior as a regularizer for the probabilistic latent encoder. However, the Gaussian tail often decays too quickly to effectively accommodate the encoded points, failing to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-05 Juno Kim , Jaehyuk Kwon , Mincheol Cho , Hyunjong Lee , Joong-Ho Won