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Variational autoencoders learn unsupervised data representations, but these models frequently converge to minima that fail to preserve meaningful semantic information. For example, variational autoencoders with autoregressive decoders often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Bryan Seybold , Emily Fertig , Alex Alemi , Ian Fischer

Compressed sensing techniques enable efficient acquisition and recovery of sparse, high-dimensional data signals via low-dimensional projections. In this work, we propose Uncertainty Autoencoders, a learning framework for unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-15 Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

Due to an information explosion on the internet, there is a need for the development of aggregated search systems that can boost the retrieval and management of content in various formats. To further improve the clustering of Arabic text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Sara Saad Soliman , Ahmed Younes , Islam Elkabani , Ashraf Elsayed

While recent neural encoder-decoder models have shown great promise in modeling open-domain conversations, they often generate dull and generic responses. Unlike past work that has focused on diversifying the output of the decoder at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tiancheng Zhao , Ran Zhao , Maxine Eskenazi

Audio autoencoders learn useful, compressed audio representations, but their non-linear latent spaces prevent intuitive algebraic manipulation such as mixing or scaling. We introduce a simple training methodology to induce linearity in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bernardo Torres , Manuel Moussallam , Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal

The autoencoder is an artificial neural network model that learns hidden representations of unlabeled data. With a linear transfer function it is similar to the principal component analysis (PCA). While both methods use weight vectors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Ya Ju Fan

In this paper, we propose a novel deep coherence model (DCM) using a convolutional neural network architecture to capture the text coherence. The text coherence problem is investigated with a new perspective of learning sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Baiyun Cui , Yingming Li , Yaqing Zhang , Zhongfei Zhang

Discrete and continuous representations of content (e.g., of language or images) have interesting properties to be explored for the understanding of or reasoning with this content by machines. This position paper puts forward our opinion on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Ruben Cartuyvels , Graham Spinks , Marie-Francine Moens

In most natural language inference problems, sentence representation is needed for semantic retrieval tasks. In recent years, pre-trained large language models have been quite effective for computing such representations. These models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Domagoj Ševerdija , Tomislav Prusina , Antonio Jovanović , Luka Borozan , Jurica Maltar , Domagoj Matijević

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

In the last few years there have been important advancements in generative models with the two dominant approaches being Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). However, standard Autoencoders (AEs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Patrick Fox-Roberts , Edward Rosten

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Autoencoders have been successful in learning meaningful representations from image datasets. However, their performance on text datasets has not been widely studied. Traditional autoencoders tend to learn possibly trivial representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-06 Yu Chen , Mohammed J. Zaki

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dario Shariatian , Alain Durmus , Umut Simsekli , Stefano Peluchetti

Maintaining semantic consistency over extended text sequences remains a fundamental challenge in long-form text generation, where conventional training methodologies often struggle to prevent contextual drift and coherence degradation. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Nirola Kobanov , Edmund Weatherstone , Zachary Vanderpoel , Orlando Wetherby

In the domains of image and audio, diffusion models have shown impressive performance. However, their application to discrete data types, such as language, has often been suboptimal compared to autoregressive generative models. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

We present a comprehensive study on the use of autoencoders for modelling text data, in which (differently from previous studies) we focus our attention on the following issues: i) we explore the suitability of two different models bDA and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Parth Gupta , Rafael E. Banchs , Paolo Rosso

Machine reading comprehension is a task to model relationship between passage and query. In terms of deep learning framework, most of state-of-the-art models simply concatenate word and character level representations, which has been shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yafang Huang , Pengfei Zhu , Hai Zhao

Data augmentation methods for Natural Language Processing tasks are explored in recent years, however they are limited and it is hard to capture the diversity on sentence level. Besides, it is not always possible to perform data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 M. Şafak Bilici , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

Automatic classification of speech commands has revolutionized human computer interactions in robotic applications. However, employed recognition models usually follow the methodology of deep learning with complicated networks which are…