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In recent years, pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable efficiency in achieving an inference-time few-shot learning capability known as in-context learning. However, existing literature has highlighted the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Xinyi Wang , Wanrong Zhu , Michael Saxon , Mark Steyvers , William Yang Wang

Data scarcity is one of the main obstacles of domain adaptation in spoken language understanding (SLU) due to the high cost of creating manually tagged SLU datasets. Recent works in neural text generative models, particularly latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Kang Min Yoo , Youhyun Shin , Sang-goo Lee

Advances in neural variational inference have facilitated the learning of powerful directed graphical models with continuous latent variables, such as variational autoencoders. The hope is that such models will learn to represent rich,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Iulian V. Serban , Alexander G. Ororbia , Joelle Pineau , Aaron Courville

We present an architecture which lets us train deep, directed generative models with many layers of latent variables. We include deterministic paths between all latent variables and the generated output, and provide a richer set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Philip Bachman

Advances in generative models increase the need for sample quality assessment. To do so, previous methods rely on a pre-trained feature extractor to embed the generated samples and real samples into a common space for comparison. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Generative classifiers, which leverage conditional generative models for classification, have recently demonstrated desirable properties such as robustness to distribution shifts. However, recent progress in this area has been largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yi-Chung Chen , David I. Inouye , Jing Gao

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

Deep generative models like VAEs and diffusion models have advanced various generation tasks by leveraging latent variables to learn data distributions and generate high-quality samples. Despite the field of explainable AI making strides in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mengdan Zhu , Raasikh Kanjiani , Jiahui Lu , Andrew Choi , Qirui Ye , Liang Zhao

Flow matching models have shown great potential in image generation tasks among probabilistic generative models. However, most flow matching models in the literature do not explicitly utilize the underlying clustering structure in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Anirban Samaddar , Yixuan Sun , Viktor Nilsson , Sandeep Madireddy

Sequential data often possesses a hierarchical structure with complex dependencies between subsequences, such as found between the utterances in a dialogue. In an effort to model this kind of generative process, we propose a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Iulian Vlad Serban , Alessandro Sordoni , Ryan Lowe , Laurent Charlin , Joelle Pineau , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

We introduce nested diffusion models, an efficient and powerful hierarchical generative framework that substantially enhances the generation quality of diffusion models, particularly for images of complex scenes. Our approach employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Zhang , Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett , Michael Maire

Recent advances in neural variational inference have spawned a renaissance in deep latent variable models. In this paper we introduce a generic variational inference framework for generative and conditional models of text. While traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Yishu Miao , Lei Yu , Phil Blunsom

Generative models for classification use the joint probability distribution of the class variable and the features to construct a decision rule. Among generative models, Bayesian networks and naive Bayes classifiers are the most commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Federico Carli , Manuele Leonelli , Gherardo Varando

The emerging in-context learning (ICL) ability of large language models (LLMs) has prompted their use for predictive tasks in various domains with different data types, including tabular data, facilitated by serialization methods. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Karuna Bhaila , Minh-Hao Van , Kennedy Edemacu , Chen Zhao , Feng Chen , Xintao Wu

The development of high-dimensional generative models has recently gained a great surge of interest with the introduction of variational auto-encoders and generative adversarial neural networks. Different variants have been proposed where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Mickaël Chen , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artières

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

Neural conversation models such as encoder-decoder models are easy to generate bland and generic responses. Some researchers propose to use the conditional variational autoencoder(CVAE) which maximizes the lower bound on the conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Jun Gao , Wei Bi , Xiaojiang Liu , Junhui Li , Guodong Zhou , Shuming Shi

The paradigm shift from shallow classifiers with hand-crafted features to end-to-end trainable deep learning models has shown significant improvements on supervised learning tasks. Despite the promising power of deep neural networks (DNN),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Chih-Kuan Yeh , Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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

Variational autoencoders learn distributions of high-dimensional data. They model data with a deep latent-variable model and then fit the model by maximizing a lower bound of the log marginal likelihood. VAEs can capture complex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-01 Adji B. Dieng , Yoon Kim , Alexander M. Rush , David M. Blei