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Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Tanmoy Mukherjee , Makoto Yamada , Timothy M. Hospedales

Deep latent variable models (DLVMs) are designed to learn meaningful representations in an unsupervised manner, such that the hidden explanatory factors are interpretable by independent latent variables (aka disentanglement). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Surojit Saha , Sarang Joshi , Ross Whitaker

Imitation learning is an intuitive approach for teaching motion to robotic systems. Although previous studies have proposed various methods to model demonstrated movement primitives, one of the limitations of existing methods is that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Takayuki Osa , Shuhei Ikemoto

In this work, we explore modeling change points in time-series data using neural stochastic differential equations (neural SDEs). We propose a novel model formulation and training procedure based on the variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yousef El-Laham , Zhongchang Sun , Haibei Zhu , Tucker Balch , Svitlana Vyetrenko

We address the problem of unsupervised disentanglement of discrete and continuous explanatory factors of data. We first show a simple procedure for minimizing the total correlation of the continuous latent variables without having to use a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Yeonwoo Jeong , Hyun Oh Song

Predicting customers' long-term revenue from sparse and irregular transaction data is central to marketing resource allocation in non-contractual settings, yet existing approaches face a trade-off. Traditional probabilistic customer base…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-27 Jeffrey Näf , Riana Valera Mbelson , Markus Meierer

We address the problem of unsupervised disentanglement of latent representations learnt via deep generative models. In contrast to current approaches that operate on the evidence lower bound (ELBO), we argue that statistical independence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Harold Soh

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are an influential and generally-used class of likelihood-based generative models in unsupervised learning. The likelihood-based generative models have been reported to be highly robust to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xuming Ran , Mingkun Xu , Qi Xu , Huihui Zhou , Quanying Liu

Deep generative models such as conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs) have shown great promise for predicting trajectories of surrounding agents in autonomous vehicle planning. State-of-the-art models have achieved remarkable accuracy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yongxi Cao , Julian F. Schumann , Jens Kober , Joni Pajarinen , Arkady Zgonnikov

In this paper, we present an unsupervised probabilistic model and associated estimation algorithm for multi-object tracking (MOT) based on a dynamical variational autoencoder (DVAE), called DVAE-UMOT. The DVAE is a latent-variable deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xiaoyu Lin , Laurent Girin , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Latent generative models have emerged as a leading approach for high-quality image synthesis. These models rely on an autoencoder to compress images into a latent space, followed by a generative model to learn the latent distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theodoros Kouzelis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Generative modeling and self-supervised learning have in recent years made great strides towards learning from data in a completely unsupervised way. There is still however an open area of investigation into guiding a neural network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa

We develop a generalisation of disentanglement in VAEs---decomposition of the latent representation---characterising it as the fulfilment of two factors: a) the latent encodings of the data having an appropriate level of overlap, and b) the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Emile Mathieu , Tom Rainforth , N. Siddharth , Yee Whye Teh

Modern visual world modeling systems increasingly rely on high-capacity architectures and large-scale data to produce plausible motion, yet they often fail to preserve underlying 3D geometry or physically consistent camera dynamics. A key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Andrew Bond , Ilkin Umut Melanlioglu , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Large climate-model ensembles are computationally expensive; yet many downstream analyses would benefit from additional, statistically consistent realizations of spatiotemporal climate variables. We study a generative modeling approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jacquelyn Shelton , Przemyslaw Polewski , Alexander Robel , Matthew Hoffman , Stephen Price

We construct an unsupervised learning model that achieves nonlinear disentanglement of underlying factors of variation in naturalistic videos. Previous work suggests that representations can be disentangled if all but a few factors in the…

Disentangled generative models map a latent code vector to a target space, while enforcing that a subset of the learned latent codes are interpretable and associated with distinct properties of the target distribution. Recent advances have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zinan Lin , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

There exist many forms of deep latent variable models, such as the variational autoencoder and adversarial autoencoder. Regardless of the specific class of model, there exists an implicit consensus that the latent distribution should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Rogan Morrow , Wei-Chen Chiu

Variational Autoencoders are powerful models for unsupervised learning. However deep models with several layers of dependent stochastic variables are difficult to train which limits the improvements obtained using these highly expressive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-30 Casper Kaae Sønderby , Tapani Raiko , Lars Maaløe , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Ole Winther