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While generative models have shown great success in generating high-dimensional samples conditional on low-dimensional descriptors (learning e.g. stroke thickness in MNIST, hair color in CelebA, or speaker identity in Wavenet), their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Mohammad Lotfollahi , Mohsen Naghipourfar , Fabian J. Theis , F. Alexander Wolf

Zero-shot learning enables models to generalise to unseen classes by leveraging semantic information, bridging the gap between training and testing sets with non-overlapping classes. While much research has focused on zero-shot learning in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ysobel Sims , Alexandre Mendes , Stephan Chalup

Unsupervised representation learning via generative modeling is a staple to many computer vision applications in the absence of labeled data. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that learn representations useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Riddhish Bhalodia , Iain Lee , Shireen Elhabian

Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset, with diffusion models recently becoming the most popular generative model. One of the main challenges of diffusion models is solving the problem in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Wonjun Lee , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Dongmian Zou , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

In this paper, we are interested in audio-visual speech separation given a single-channel audio recording as well as visual information (lips movements) associated with each speaker. We propose an unsupervised technique based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Viet-Nhat Nguyen , Mostafa Sadeghi , Elisa Ricci , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Evaluating generative models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when the goal is to reflect human preferences. In this paper, we use music generation as a case study to investigate the gap between automatic evaluation metrics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Huy Phan , Wenwu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos

Variational autoencdoers (VAE) are a popular approach to generative modelling. However, exploiting the capabilities of VAEs in practice can be difficult. Recent work on regularised and entropic autoencoders have begun to explore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Gregory A. Daly , Jonathan E. Fieldsend , Gavin Tabor

This paper proposes a new model for music prediction based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In this work, VAEs are used in a novel way in order to address two different problems: music representation into the latent space, and using this…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Rivero , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Alejandro Pazos

Variational autoencoders (VAEs), that are built upon deep neural networks have emerged as popular generative models in computer vision. Most of the work towards improving variational autoencoders has focused mainly on making the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Siddharth Agrawal , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Deep metric learning aims to learn an embedding space where the distance between data reflects their class equivalence, even when their classes are unseen during training. However, the limited number of classes available in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Kyungmoon Lee , Sungyeon Kim , Seunghoon Hong , Suha Kwak

State-of-the-art under-determined audio source separation systems rely on supervised end-end training of carefully tailored neural network architectures operating either in the time or the spectral domain. However, these methods are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Vivek Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Rushil Anirudh , Andreas Spanias

Timbre allows us to distinguish between sounds even when they share the same pitch and loudness, playing an important role in music, instrument recognition, and speech. Traditional approaches, such as frequency analysis or machine learning,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Gakusei Sato , Hiroya Nakao , Riccardo Muolo

Generative deep neural networks are widely used for speech synthesis, but most existing models directly generate waveforms or spectral outputs. Humans, however, produce speech by controlling articulators, which results in the production of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Gašper Beguš , Alan Zhou , Peter Wu , Gopala K Anumanchipalli

Regularized autoencoders learn the latent codes, a structure with the regularization under the distribution, which enables them the capability to infer the latent codes given observations and generate new samples given the codes. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

The imitation of voice, targeted on specific speech attributes such as timbre and speaking style, is crucial in speech generation. However, existing methods rely heavily on annotated data, and struggle with effectively disentangling timbre…

Noninvasive reconstruction of cardiac transmembrane potential (TMP) from surface electrocardiograms (ECG) involves an ill-posed inverse problem. Model-constrained regularization is powerful for incorporating rich physiological knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-14 Sandesh Ghimire , Jwala Dhamala , Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , John L Sapp , B. Milan Horacek , Linwei Wang

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

Laminated composite materials are widely used in most fields of engineering. Wave propagation analysis plays an essential role in understanding the short-duration transient response of composite structures. The forward physics-based models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Mahindra Rautela , J. Senthilnath , Armin Huber , S. Gopalakrishnan

This paper introduces a new interpretation of the Variational Autoencoder framework by taking a fully geometric point of view. We argue that vanilla VAE models unveil naturally a Riemannian structure in their latent space and that taking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-04 Clément Chadebec , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Popular generative model learning methods such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Variational Autoencoders (VAE) enforce the latent representation to follow simple distributions such as isotropic Gaussian. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Cem Subakan , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Paris Smaragdis