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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models have recently attracted a great deal of interest from a variety of application sectors. Despite significant developments in this area, there are still no standardized methods or approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sarit Maitra , Vivek Mishra , Pratima Verma , Manav Chopra , Priyanka Nath

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are a popular class of deep generative models with many variants and a wide range of applications. Improvements upon the standard VAE mostly focus on the modelling of the posterior distribution over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 James Langley , Miguel Monteiro , Charles Jones , Nick Pawlowski , Ben Glocker

In this paper we explore the task of modeling semi-structured object sequences; in particular, we focus our attention on the problem of developing a structure-aware input representation for such sequences. Examples of such data include user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Rudra Murthy , Riyaz Bhat , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Hui Wan , Tejas Indulal Dhamecha , Danish Contractor , Marina Danilevsky

Conditional neural processes (CNPs) are a flexible and efficient family of models that learn to learn a stochastic process from data. They have seen particular application in contextual image completion - observing pixel values at some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Victor Prokhorov , Ivan Titov , N. Siddharth

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are used to analyze embeddings, but their role and practical value are debated. We propose a new perspective on SAEs by demonstrating that they can be naturally understood as topic models. We propose a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Leander Girrbach , Zeynep Akata

Detecting navigable space is the first and also a critical step for successful robot navigation. In this work, we treat the visual navigable space segmentation as a scene decomposition problem and propose a new network, NSS-VAEs (Navigable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Zheng Chen , Lantao Liu

Classic variational autoencoders are used to learn complex data distributions, that are built on standard function approximators. Especially, VAE has shown promise on a lot of complex task. In this paper, a new autoencoder model -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Graph clustering, aiming to partition nodes of a graph into various groups via an unsupervised approach, is an attractive topic in recent years. To improve the representative ability, several graph auto-encoder (GAE) models, which are based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hongyuan Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xuelong Li

Unsupervised learning has been widely applied to various tasks in particle physics. However, existing models lack precise control over their learned representations, limiting physical interpretability and hindering their use for accurate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-01 Xing-Jian Lv , De-Xing Miao , Zi-Jun Xu , Jian-Chun Wang

We demonstrate a new deep learning autoencoder network, trained by a nonnegativity constraint algorithm (NCAE), that learns features which show part-based representation of data. The learning algorithm is based on constraining negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Jacek M. Zurada , Olfa Nasraoui

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a powerful technique for extracting human-interpretable features from neural networks activations. Previous works compared different models based on SAE-derived features but those comparisons have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Clément Cornet , Romaric Besançon , Hervé Le Borgne

We present a novel architecture, the "stacked what-where auto-encoders" (SWWAE), which integrates discriminative and generative pathways and provides a unified approach to supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-16 Junbo Zhao , Michael Mathieu , Ross Goroshin , Yann LeCun

In the area of 3D shape analysis, the geometric properties of a shape have long been studied. Instead of directly extracting representative features using expert-designed descriptors or end-to-end deep neural networks, this paper is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Zongji Wang , Yunfei Liu , Feng Lu

Many physical systems exhibit a low-dimensional structure that varies with external parameters: link lengths in a robot, forcing constants in a fluid, or Reynolds numbers in a flow shift the underlying manifold while preserving its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jérôme Adriaens , Gustave Bainier , Guillaume Drion , Pierre Sacré

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

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have been proposed as an unsupervised approach to learn a decomposition of a model's latent space. This enables useful applications such as steering - influencing the output of a model towards a desired concept -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dana Arad , Aaron Mueller , Yonatan Belinkov

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

We introduce the concept of a Modular Autoencoder (MAE), capable of learning a set of diverse but complementary representations from unlabelled data, that can later be used for supervised tasks. The learning of the representations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Henry W J Reeve , Gavin Brown