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Successfully training Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) with a hierarchy of discrete latent variables remains an area of active research. Vector-Quantised VAEs are a powerful approach to discrete VAEs, but naive hierarchical extensions can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-05 Matthew Willetts , Xenia Miscouridou , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful architecture capable of representation learning and generative modeling. When it comes to learning interpretable (disentangled) representations, VAE and its variants show unparalleled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Michal Rolinek , Dominik Zietlow , Georg Martius

We present a novel introspective variational autoencoder (IntroVAE) model for synthesizing high-resolution photographic images. IntroVAE is capable of self-evaluating the quality of its generated samples and improving itself accordingly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Huaibo Huang , Zhihang Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Optimal computations under uncertainty require an adequate probabilistic representation about beliefs. Deep generative models, and specifically Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have the potential to meet this demand by building latent…

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful generative model that can estimate the probability of a data point by using latent variables. In the VAE, the posterior of the latent variable given the data point is regularized by the prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-30 Hiroshi Takahashi , Tomoharu Iwata , Yuki Yamanaka , Masanori Yamada , Satoshi Yagi

Deep generative models applied to audio have improved by a large margin the state-of-the-art in many speech and music related tasks. However, as raw waveform modelling remains an inherently difficult task, audio generative models are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Antoine Caillon , Philippe Esling

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is widely used as a generative model to approximate a model's posterior on latent variables by combining the amortized variational inference and deep neural networks. However, when paired with strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Qile Zhu , Jianlin Su , Wei Bi , Xiaojiang Liu , Xiyao Ma , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are probabilistic deep generative models underpinned by elegant theory, stable training processes, and meaningful manifold representations. However, they produce blurry images due to a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Prashnna K Gyawali , Rudra Saha , Linwei Wang , VSR Veeravasarapu , Maneesh Singh

This paper proposes a joint training method to learn both the variational auto-encoder (VAE) and the latent energy-based model (EBM). The joint training of VAE and latent EBM are based on an objective function that consists of three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Tian Han , Erik Nijkamp , Linqi Zhou , Bo Pang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

This paper presents a simulator-assisted training method (SimVAE) for variational autoencoders (VAE) that leads to a disentangled and interpretable latent space. Training SimVAE is a two-step process in which first a deep generator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Akash Srivastava , Jessie Rosenberg , Dan Gutfreund , David D. Cox

Vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are discrete autoencoders that compress images into discrete tokens. However, they are difficult to train due to discretization. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tongda Xu , Wendi Zheng , Jiajun He , Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato , Yan Wang , Ya-Qin Zhang , Jie Tang

Multimodal variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise as efficient generative models for weakly-supervised data. Yet, despite their advantage of weak supervision, they exhibit a gap in generative quality compared to unimodal VAEs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Imant Daunhawer , Thomas M. Sutter , Kieran Chin-Cheong , Emanuele Palumbo , Julia E. Vogt

We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Instead of using pixel-by-pixel loss, we enforce deep feature consistency between the input and the output of a VAE, which ensures the VAE's output to preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xianxu Hou , Linlin Shen , Ke Sun , Guoping Qiu

We propose to utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) for data-driven channel estimation. The underlying true and unknown channel distribution is modeled by the VAE as a conditional Gaussian distribution in a novel way, parameterized by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Michael Baur , Benedikt Fesl , Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick

Despite progress in training neural networks for lossy image compression, current approaches fail to maintain both perceptual quality and abstract features at very low bitrates. Encouraged by recent success in learning discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Will Williams , Sam Ringer , Tom Ash , John Hughes , David MacLeod , Jamie Dougherty

In just three years, Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as one of the most popular approaches to unsupervised learning of complicated distributions. VAEs are appealing because they are built on top of standard function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Carl Doersch

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

Deep generative models with discrete latent space, such as the Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE), offer excellent data generation capabilities, but, due to the large size of their latent space, their probabilistic inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Armin Hadžić , Milan Papez , Tomáš Pevný

Recent progress in quantum algorithms and hardware indicates the potential importance of quantum computing in the near future. However, finding suitable application areas remains an active area of research. Quantum machine learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nicholas Gao , Max Wilson , Thomas Vandal , Walter Vinci , Ramakrishna Nemani , Eleanor Rieffel

Learning a generative model from partial data (data with missingness) is a challenging area of machine learning research. We study a specific implementation of the Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes (AEVB) algorithm, named in this paper as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Amir Zadeh , Yao-Chong Lim , Paul Pu Liang , Louis-Philippe Morency