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The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has proven to be an effective model for producing semantically meaningful latent representations for natural data. However, it has thus far seen limited application to sequential data, and, as we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Adam Roberts , Jesse Engel , Colin Raffel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

Learning useful representations of complex data has been the subject of extensive research for many years. With the diffusion of Deep Neural Networks, Variational Autoencoders have gained lots of attention since they provide an explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Marco Maggipinto , Matteo Terzi , Gian Antonio Susto

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is a probabilistic machine learning framework for posterior inference that projects an input set of high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional, latent space. The latent space learned with a VAE offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rafael Pastrana

Large scale image classification datasets often contain noisy labels. We take a principled probabilistic approach to modelling input-dependent, also known as heteroscedastic, label noise in these datasets. We place a multivariate Normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mark Collier , Basil Mustafa , Efi Kokiopoulou , Rodolphe Jenatton , Jesse Berent

Inspired by the recent success of deep learning in multiscale information encoding, we introduce a variational autoencoder (VAE) based semi-supervised method for detection of faulty traffic data, which is cast as a classification problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Yongcan Huang , Jidong J. Yang

To what extent do individual eigenstates encode information of their underlying Hamiltonian, and how does this depend on their spectral position? For many-body quantum systems, this issue is widely understood in terms of the differing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Maksymilian Kliczkowski , Jarosław Pawłowski , Masudul Haque

The success of deep neural networks often relies on a large amount of labeled examples, which can be difficult to obtain in many real scenarios. To address this challenge, unsupervised methods are strongly preferred for training neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Liheng Zhang , Guo-Jun Qi , Liqiang Wang , Jiebo Luo

Labeled sequence transduction is a task of transforming one sequence into another sequence that satisfies desiderata specified by a set of labels. In this paper we propose multi-space variational encoder-decoders, a new model for labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Chunting Zhou , Graham Neubig

Multilingual models are often particularly dependent on scaling to generalize to a growing number of languages. Compression techniques are widely relied upon to reconcile the growth in model size with real world resource constraints, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kelechi Ogueji , Orevaoghene Ahia , Gbemileke Onilude , Sebastian Gehrmann , Sara Hooker , Julia Kreutzer

The integrative analysis of histopathological images and genomic data has received increasing attention for survival prediction of human cancers. However, the existing studies always hold the assumption that full modalities are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Junjie Zhou , Jiao Tang , Yingli Zuo , Peng Wan , Daoqiang Zhang , Wei Shao

Variational autoencoders are widely used for unsupervised anomaly detection. Model selection however remains an open-question: to remain fully unsupervised, hyperparameters are often chosen to minimize the reconstruction error on normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Agathe Senellart , Maëlys Solal , Stéphanie Allassonnière , Ninon Burgos

The extensive adoption of Deep Neural Networks has led to their increased utilization in challenging scientific visualization tasks. Recent advancements in building compressed data models using implicit neural representations have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Abhay Kumar Dwivedi , Shanu Saklani , Soumya Dutta

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are fundamental for generative modeling and image reconstruction, yet their performance often struggles to maintain high fidelity in reconstructions. This study introduces a hybrid model, quantum variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Farina Riaz , Fakhar Zaman , Hajime Suzuki , Sharif Abuadbba , David Nguyen

Despite their ubiquity, variational autoencoders (VAEs) inherently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which latent variables are effectively ignored. This failure arises because explicit prior imposition drives optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hazhir Aliahmadi , Irina Babayan , Greg van Anders

Learning interpretable and disentangled representations is a crucial yet challenging task in representation learning. In this work, we focus on semi-supervised disentanglement learning and extend work by Locatello et al. (2019) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Weili Nie , Zichao Wang , Ankit B. Patel , Richard G. Baraniuk

This paper introduces a modified variational autoencoder (VAEs) that contains an additional neural network branch. The resulting branched VAE (BVAE) contributes a classification component based on the class labels to the total loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ahmed Salah , David Yevick

We claim that a source of severe failures for Variational Auto-Encoders is the choice of the distribution class used for the observation model.A first theoretical and experimental contribution of the paper is to establish that even in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Michele Sebag , Victor Berger , Michèle Sebag

In this paper we explore the effect of architectural choices on learning a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for text generation. In contrast to the previously introduced VAE model for text where both the encoder and decoder are RNNs, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Stanislau Semeniuta , Aliaksei Severyn , Erhardt Barth

In this paper, we propose a Conditioned Variational Autoencoder (C-VAE) for constrained top-N item recommendation where the recommended items must satisfy a given condition. The proposed model architecture is similar to a standard VAE in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tommaso Carraro , Mirko Polato , Fabio Aiolli

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu