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This paper presents a novel generative framework for learning shared latent representations across multimodal data. Many advanced multimodal methods focus on capturing all combinations of modality-specific details across inputs, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiali Cui , Yan-Ying Chen , Yanxia Zhang , Matthew Klenk

Discrete latent spaces in variational autoencoders have been shown to effectively capture the data distribution for many real-world problems such as natural language understanding, human intent prediction, and visual scene representation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Masha Itkina , Boris Ivanovic , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Marco Pavone

Due to the ever-growing diversity of the data source, multi-modality feature learning has attracted more and more attention. However, most of these methods are designed by jointly learning feature representation from multi-modalities that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Danfeng Hong , Jocelyn Chanussot , Naoto Yokoya , Jian Kang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

We deal with the problem of learning the underlying disentangled latent factors that are shared between the paired bi-modal data in cross-modal retrieval. Our assumption is that the data in both modalities are complex, structured, and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Minyoung Kim , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

Neural networks transform high-dimensional data into compact, structured representations, often modeled as elements of a lower dimensional latent space. In this paper, we present an alternative interpretation of neural models as dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Marco Fumero , Luca Moschella , Emanuele Rodolà , Francesco Locatello

In this short paper, a neural network that is able to form a low dimensional topological hidden representation is explained. The neural network can be trained as an autoencoder, a classifier or mix of both, and produces different low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Pitoyo Hartono

We propose a novel capsule network based variational encoder architecture, called Bayesian capsules (B-Caps), to modulate the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution in the latent space. We hypothesized that this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Harish RaviPrakash , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Ulas Bagci

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for multi-modal speech and text input. We combine pretrained speech and text encoders using multi-headed cross-modal attention and jointly fine-tune on the target problem. The resultant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Karan Singla , Daniel Pressel , Ryan Price , Bhargav Srinivas Chinnari , Yeon-Jun Kim , Srinivas Bangalore

People can recognize scenes across many different modalities beyond natural images. In this paper, we investigate how to learn cross-modal scene representations that transfer across modalities. To study this problem, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Lluis Castrejon , Yusuf Aytar , Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

Learning controllable and generalizable representation of multivariate data with desired structural properties remains a fundamental problem in machine learning. In this paper, we present a novel framework for learning generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Ruixiang Zhang , Masanori Koyama , Katsuhiko Ishiguro

Multimodal representation learning has demonstrated remarkable potential in enabling models to process and integrate diverse data modalities, such as text and images, for improved understanding and performance. While the medical domain can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shuvendu Roy , Franklin Ogidi , Ali Etemad , Elham Dolatabadi , Arash Afkanpour

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful deep generative models widely used to represent high-dimensional complex data through a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Laurent Girin , Simon Leglaive , Xiaoyu Bie , Julien Diard , Thomas Hueber , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

We propose split-brain autoencoders, a straightforward modification of the traditional autoencoder architecture, for unsupervised representation learning. The method adds a split to the network, resulting in two disjoint sub-networks. Each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Richard Zhang , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros

Posterior collapse plagues VAEs for text, especially for conditional text generation with strong autoregressive decoders. In this work, we address this problem in variational neural machine translation by explicitly promoting mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Arya D. McCarthy , Xian Li , Jiatao Gu , Ning Dong

Humans are able to create rich representations of their external reality. Their internal representations allow for cross-modality inference, where available perceptions can induce the perceptual experience of missing input modalities. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Miguel Vasco , Francisco S. Melo , Ana Paiva

We propose a new structure for the variational auto-encoders (VAEs) prior, with the weakly informative multivariate Student's t-distribution. In the proposed model all distribution parameters are trained, thereby allowing for a more robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Najmeh Abiri , Mattias Ohlsson

Variational Autoencoders are powerful models for unsupervised learning. However deep models with several layers of dependent stochastic variables are difficult to train which limits the improvements obtained using these highly expressive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-30 Casper Kaae Sønderby , Tapani Raiko , Lars Maaløe , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Ole Winther

The explosive increase of multimodal data makes a great demand in many cross-modal applications that follow the strict prior related assumption. Thus researchers study the definition of cross-modal correlation category and construct various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Nan Xu , Junyan Wang , Yuan Tian , Ruike Zhang , Wenji Mao

Graph auto-encoders have proved to be useful in network embedding task. However, current models only consider explicit structures and fail to explore the informative latent structures cohered in networks. To address this issue, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Minglong Lei , Yong Shi , Lingfeng Niu

One of the major shortcomings of variational autoencoders is the inability to produce generations from the individual modalities of data originating from mixture distributions. This is primarily due to the use of a simple isotropic Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Frantzeska Lavda , Magda Gregorová , Alexandros Kalousis