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As deep learning inference is increasingly deployed in shared and cloud-based settings, a growing concern is input repurposing, in which data submitted for one task is reused by unauthorized models for another. Existing privacy defenses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zinan Guo , Zihan Wang , Chuan Yan , Liuhuo Wan , Ethan Ma , Guangdong Bai

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

We investigate adversarial attacks for autoencoders. We propose a procedure that distorts the input image to mislead the autoencoder in reconstructing a completely different target image. We attack the internal latent representations,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Pedro Tabacof , Julia Tavares , Eduardo Valle

Matched filtering for signal detection in noisy data requires template banks that capture variation in signal waveforms while minimizing computational cost. Dimensionality reduction of signal waveforms can be important for building…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Giovanni Cabass , Digvijay Wadekar , Matias Zaldarriaga , Zihan Zhou

This paper proposes a novel framework for manifold-valued regression and establishes its consistency as well as its contraction rate. It assumes a predictor with values in the interval $[0,1]$ and response with values in a compact…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Xu Wang , Gilad Lerman

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. In this work, we demonstrate that diffusion models can also \textit{generate high-performing neural network parameters}. Our approach is simple, utilizing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kai Wang , Dongwen Tang , Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhaopan Xu , Yukun Zhou , Zelin Zang , Trevor Darrell , Zhuang Liu , Yang You

The variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a popular method for learning a generative model and embeddings of the data. Many real datasets are hierarchically structured. However, traditional VAEs map data in a Euclidean latent space which cannot…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-27 Emile Mathieu , Charline Le Lan , Chris J. Maddison , Ryota Tomioka , Yee Whye Teh

Variational Autoencoders for multimodal data hold promise for many tasks in data analysis, such as representation learning, conditional generation, and imputation. Current architectures either share the encoder output, decoder input, or…

Understanding how the D-Wave quantum computer could be used for machine learning problems is of growing interest. Our work evaluates the feasibility of using the D-Wave as a sampler for machine learning. We describe a hybrid system that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Jennifer Sleeman , John Dorband , Milton Halem

Real-time interception of fast-moving objects by robotic arms in dynamic environments poses a formidable challenge due to the need for rapid reaction times, often within milliseconds, amidst dynamic obstacles. This paper introduces a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Apan Dastider , Hao Fang , Mingjie Lin

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for manifold learning that combines the Earthmover's distance (EMD) with the diffusion maps method for dimensionality reduction. We demonstrate the potential benefits of this approach for learning…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-24 Nathan Zelesko , Amit Moscovich , Joe Kileel , Amit Singer

The framework of variational autoencoders allows us to efficiently learn deep latent-variable models, such that the model's marginal distribution over observed variables fits the data. Often, we're interested in going a step further, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-22 Ilyes Khemakhem , Diederik P. Kingma , Ricardo Pio Monti , Aapo Hyvärinen

We propose a composable framework for latent space image augmentation that allows for easy combination of multiple augmentations. Image augmentation has been shown to be an effective technique for improving the performance of a wide variety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Omead Pooladzandi , Jeffrey Jiang , Sunay Bhat , Gregory Pottie

Representation learning seeks to expose certain aspects of observed data in a learned representation that's amenable to downstream tasks like classification. For instance, a good representation for 2D images might be one that describes only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Xi Chen , Diederik P. Kingma , Tim Salimans , Yan Duan , Prafulla Dhariwal , John Schulman , Ilya Sutskever , Pieter Abbeel

To analyze high-dimensional and complex data in the real world, deep generative models, such as variational autoencoder (VAE) embed data in a low-dimensional space (latent space) and learn a probabilistic model in the latent space. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Keizo Kato , Jing Zhou , Tomotake Sasaki , Akira Nakagawa

Generative models have demonstrated strong performance in conditional settings and can be viewed as a form of data compression, where the condition serves as a compact representation. However, their limited controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiao Li , Liangji Zhu , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

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

Latent Video Diffusion Models (LVDMs) rely on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to compress videos into compact latent representations. For continuous Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), achieving higher compression rates is desirable; yet, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yubo Dong , Linchao Zhu

Existing techniques to encode spatial invariance within deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply the same warping field to all the feature channels. This does not account for the fact that the individual feature channels can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Seungryong Kim , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann