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Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are well-established as a principled approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning with neural networks. Typically, an encoder network defines the parameters of a Gaussian distributed latent space from…

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We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds. We redevelop the VAE framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrew Gracyk

Anomaly detection in high-energy physics is essential for identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model. Autoencoders provide a signal-agnostic approach but are limited by the topology of their latent space. This work explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Błażej Rozwoda , Kazuki Sakurai , Michael Spannowsky

Measuring the similarity between data points often requires domain knowledge, which can in parts be compensated by relying on unsupervised methods such as latent-variable models, where similarity/distance is estimated in a more compact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Francesco Ferroni , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

Wide accessibility of imaging and profile sensors in modern industrial systems created an abundance of high-dimensional sensing variables. This led to a a growing interest in the research of high-dimensional process monitoring. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Nurettin Sergin , Hao Yan

Variational autoencoders allow to learn a lower-dimensional latent space based on high-dimensional input/output data. Using video clips as input data, the encoder may be used to describe the movement of an object in the video without ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Thomas Beckers , Qirui Wu , George J. Pappas

Variational autoencoders often assume isotropic Gaussian priors and mean-field posteriors, hence do not exploit structure in scenarios where we may expect similarity or consistency across latent variables. Gaussian process variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-17 Metod Jazbec , Michael Pearce , Vincent Fortuin

Unsupervised and semi-supervised ML methods such as variational autoencoders (VAE) have become widely adopted across multiple areas of physics, chemistry, and materials sciences due to their capability in disentangling representations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Arpan Biswas , Rama Vasudevan , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Machine-learning models have demonstrated a great ability to learn complex patterns and make predictions. In high-dimensional nonlinear problems of fluid dynamics, data representation often greatly affects the performance and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-29 Runze Li , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen

Discrete latent bottlenecks in variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer high bit efficiency and can be modeled with autoregressive discrete distributions, enabling parameter-efficient multimodal search with transformers. However, discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Michael Drolet , Firas Al-Hafez , Aditya Bhatt , Jan Peters , Oleg Arenz

Variational autoencoders employ an encoding neural network to generate a probabilistic representation of a data set within a low-dimensional space of latent variables followed by a decoding stage that maps the latent variables back to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-13 David Yevick

The dynamics of a turbulent flow tend to occupy only a portion of the phase space at a statistically stationary regime. From a dynamical systems point of view, this portion is the attractor. The knowledge of the turbulent attractor is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-05 Luca Magri , Anh Khoa Doan

We investigate a variant of variational autoencoders where there is a superstructure of discrete latent variables on top of the latent features. In general, our superstructure is a tree structure of multiple super latent variables and it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Xiaopeng Li , Zhourong Chen , Leonard K. M. Poon , Nevin L. Zhang

Sparse autoencoders have become a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet salient concepts often span manifolds that current linear methods cannot capture without post hoc analysis. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis , Geraint Wiggins , Jose Oramas

We propose a nonlinear manifold learning technique based on deep convolutional autoencoders that is appropriate for model order reduction of physical systems in complex geometries. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 John Tencer , Kevin Potter

The contractive auto-encoder learns a representation of the input data that captures the local manifold structure around each data point, through the leading singular vectors of the Jacobian of the transformation from input to…

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Learned image compression methods have shown superior rate-distortion performance and remarkable potential compared to traditional compression methods. Most existing learned approaches use stacked convolution or window-based self-attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Huairui Wang , Nianxiang Fu , Zhenzhong Chen , Shan Liu

Electron and scanning probe microscopy produce vast amounts of data in the form of images or hyperspectral data, such as EELS or 4D STEM, that contain information on a wide range of structural, physical, and chemical properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Arpan Biswas , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved remarkable quality in image generation that rivals GANs'. But unlike GANs, DPMs use a set of latent variables that lack semantic meaning and cannot serve as a useful representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Konpat Preechakul , Nattanat Chatthee , Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Unsupervised learning with functional data is an emerging paradigm of machine learning research with applications to computer vision, climate modeling and physical systems. A natural way of modeling functional data is by learning operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jacob H. Seidman , Georgios Kissas , George J. Pappas , Paris Perdikaris