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Generative modeling and self-supervised learning have in recent years made great strides towards learning from data in a completely unsupervised way. There is still however an open area of investigation into guiding a neural network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa

In self-supervised learning (SSL), representations are learned via an auxiliary task without annotated labels. A common task is to classify augmentations or different modalities of the data, which share semantic content (e.g. an object in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alice Bizeul , Bernhard Schölkopf , Carl Allen

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have played a key role in scaling up diffusion-based generative models, as in Stable Diffusion, yet questions regarding their robustness remain largely underexplored. Although adversarial training has been an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hyomin Lee , Minseon Kim , Sangwon Jang , Jongheon Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

Most visual generative models compress images into a latent space before applying diffusion or autoregressive modelling. Yet, existing approaches such as VAEs and foundation model aligned encoders implicitly constrain the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sen Ye , Jianning Pei , Mengde Xu , Shuyang Gu , Chunyu Wang , Liwei Wang , Han Hu

Recent state-of-the-art autoencoder based generative models have an encoder-decoder structure and learn a latent representation with a pre-defined distribution that can be sampled from. Implementing the encoder networks of these models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 D. T. Braithwaite , M. O'Connor , W. B. Kleijn

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alan Jeffares , Liyuan Liu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

This paper describes a general, scalable, end-to-end framework that uses the generative adversarial network (GAN) objective to enable robust speech recognition. Encoders trained with the proposed approach enjoy improved invariance by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anuroop Sriram , Heewoo Jun , Yashesh Gaur , Sanjeev Satheesh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Antonia Creswell , Tom White , Vincent Dumoulin , Kai Arulkumaran , Biswa Sengupta , Anil A Bharath

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful framework for learning probabilistic latent variable generative models. However, typical assumptions on the approximate posterior distribution of the encoder and/or the prior, seriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou , Elan Rosenfeld , Artur Dubrawski

Data-driven fault diagnostics of safety-critical systems often faces the challenge of a complete lack of labeled data associated with faulty system conditions (i.e., fault types) at training time. Since an unknown number and nature of fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Manuel Arias Chao , Bryan T. Adey , Olga Fink

Network embedding represents nodes in a continuous vector space and preserves structure information from the Network. Existing methods usually adopt a "one-size-fits-all" approach when concerning multi-scale structure information, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lei Sang , Min Xu , Shengsheng Qian , Xindong Wu

Reliable training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) typically require massive datasets in order to model complicated distributions. However, in several applications, training samples obey invariances that are \textit{a priori}…

In this paper, we propose a model using generative adversarial net (GAN) to generate realistic text. Instead of using standard GAN, we combine variational autoencoder (VAE) with generative adversarial net. The use of high-level latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Heng Wang , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are capable of producing high quality image samples. However, unlike variational autoencoders (VAEs), GANs lack encoders that provide the inverse mapping for the generators, i.e., encode images back to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Paul K. Rubenstein , Yunpeng Li , Dominik Roblek

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by sampling the most representative queries to be labeled by an oracle. We describe a pool-based semi-supervised active learning algorithm that implicitly learns this sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Samarth Sinha , Sayna Ebrahimi , Trevor Darrell

We present an autoencoder that leverages learned representations to better measure similarities in data space. By combining a variational autoencoder with a generative adversarial network we can use learned feature representations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Hugo Larochelle , Ole Winther

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jason Chou

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are probabilistic deep generative models underpinned by elegant theory, stable training processes, and meaningful manifold representations. However, they produce blurry images due to a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Prashnna K Gyawali , Rudra Saha , Linwei Wang , VSR Veeravasarapu , Maneesh Singh

In recent years, research on image generation methods has been developing fast. The auto-encoding variational Bayes method (VAEs) was proposed in 2013, which uses variational inference to learn a latent space from the image database and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Guoqiang Zhong , Wei Gao , Yongbin Liu , Youzhao Yang