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In this work we present an unsupervised approach to summarize sentences in abstractive way using Variational Autoencoder (VAE). VAE are known to learn a semantically rich latent variable, representing high dimensional input. VAEs are…

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Deep generative models like VAEs and diffusion models have advanced various generation tasks by leveraging latent variables to learn data distributions and generate high-quality samples. Despite the field of explainable AI making strides in…

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Despite advances in deep probabilistic models, learning discrete latent representations remains challenging. This work introduces a novel method to improve inference in discrete Variational Autoencoders by reframing the inference problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 María Martínez-García , Grace Villacrés , David Mitchell , Pablo M. Olmos

Deep supervised neural networks trained to classify objects have emerged as popular models of computation in the primate ventral stream. These models represent information with a high-dimensional distributed population code, implying that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Irina Higgins , Le Chang , Victoria Langston , Demis Hassabis , Christopher Summerfield , Doris Tsao , Matthew Botvinick

Unsupervised representation learning holds the promise of exploiting large amounts of unlabeled data to learn general representations. A promising technique for unsupervised learning is the framework of Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kamal Gupta , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

Achieving precise semantic control over the latent spaces of Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) holds significant value for downstream tasks in NLP as the underlying generative mechanisms could be better localised, explained and improved upon.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yingji Zhang , Danilo S. Carvalho , Marco Valentino , Ian Pratt-Hartmann , Andre Freitas

In this paper, we propose a new differentiable neural network alignment mechanism for text-dependent speaker verification which uses alignment models to produce a supervector representation of an utterance. Unlike previous works with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Victoria Mingote , Antonio Miguel , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

This work presents a novel objective function for the unsupervised training of neural network sentence encoders. It exploits signals from paragraph-level discourse coherence to train these models to understand text. Our objective is purely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Yacine Jernite , Samuel R. Bowman , David Sontag

Variational autoencoders have been widely applied for natural language generation, however, there are two long-standing problems: information under-representation and posterior collapse. The former arises from the fact that only the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Xianghong Fang , Haoli Bai , Zenglin Xu , Michael Lyu , Irwin King

Recent studies have introduced a new class of generative models for synthesizing implicit neural representations (INRs) that capture arbitrary continuous signals in various domains. These models opened the door for domain-agnostic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Dogyun Park , Sihyeon Kim , Sojin Lee , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Linking neural representations to linguistic factors is crucial in order to build and analyze NLP models interpretable by humans. Among these factors, syntactic roles (e.g. subjects, direct objects,$\dots$) and their realizations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ghazi Felhi , Joseph Le Roux , Djamé Seddah

Disentangled representation learning aims to represent the underlying generative factors of a dataset in a latent representation independently of one another. In our work, we propose a discrete variational autoencoder (VAE) based model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Gulcin Baykal , Melih Kandemir , Gozde Unal

In this paper, we present a multimodal and dynamical VAE (MDVAE) applied to unsupervised audio-visual speech representation learning. The latent space is structured to dissociate the latent dynamical factors that are shared between the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Samir Sadok , Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Renaud Séguier

Learning Interpretable representation in medical applications is becoming essential for adopting data-driven models into clinical practice. It has been recently shown that learning a disentangled feature representation is important for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Mhd Hasan Sarhan , Abouzar Eslami , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Recent work on generative modeling of text has found that variational auto-encoders (VAE) incorporating LSTM decoders perform worse than simpler LSTM language models (Bowman et al., 2015). This negative result is so far poorly understood,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Learning continuous representations from unlabeled textual data has been increasingly studied for benefiting semi-supervised learning. Although it is relatively easier to interpret discrete representations, due to the difficulty of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Yau-Shian Wang , Hung-Yi Lee , Yun-Nung Chen

While sparse autoencoders (SAEs) successfully extract interpretable features from language models, applying them to audio generation faces unique challenges: audio's dense nature requires compression that obscures semantic meaning, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nathan Paek , Yongyi Zang , Qihui Yang , Randal Leistikow

Deep generative neural networks, such as Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs), offer an opportunity to better understand and control language models from the perspective of sentence-level latent spaces. To combine the controllability of VAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yingji Zhang , Danilo S. Carvalho , Ian Pratt-Hartmann , André Freitas

Extracting dense representations for terms and phrases is a task of great importance for knowledge discovery platforms targeting highly-technical fields. Dense representations are used as features for downstream components and have multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Francesco Fusco , Diego Antognini

State-of-the-art Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) for learning disentangled latent representations give impressive results in discovering features like pitch, pause duration, and accent in speech data, leading to highly controllable…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Shakti Kumar , Jithin Pradeep , Hussain Zaidi