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We present a VAE architecture for encoding and generating high dimensional sequential data, such as video or audio. Our deep generative model learns a latent representation of the data which is split into a static and dynamic part, allowing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yingzhen Li , Stephan Mandt

This paper proposes a new model, called condition-transforming variational autoencoder (CTVAE), to improve the performance of conversation response generation using conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs). In conventional CVAEs , the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu , Zhigang Chen , Nitin Indurkhya

Variational autoencoders~(VAEs) have shown a promise in data-driven conversation modeling. However, most VAE conversation models match the approximate posterior distribution over the latent variables to a simple prior such as standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Xiaodong Gu , Kyunghyun Cho , Jung-Woo Ha , Sunghun Kim

Deep generative models are reported to be useful in broad applications including image generation. Repeated inference between data space and latent space in these models can denoise cluttered images and improve the quality of inferred…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-13 Yoshihiro Nagano , Ryo Karakida , Masato Okada

Recent neural text-to-speech (TTS) models with fine-grained latent features enable precise control of the prosody of synthesized speech. Such models typically incorporate a fine-grained variational autoencoder (VAE) structure, extracting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Guangzhi Sun , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Yuan Cao , Heiga Zen , Andrew Rosenberg , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Yonghui Wu

This paper proposes a new unsupervised audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) approach that combines a diffusion-based audio-visual speech generative model with a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) noise model. First, the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Understanding and controlling latent representations in deep generative models is a challenging yet important problem for analyzing, transforming and generating various types of data. In speech processing, inspiring from the anatomical…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Samir Sadok , Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Renaud Séguier

We present a simple yet effective generative model for time series, based on a Recurrent Variational Autoencoder that we refer to as AEQ-RVAE-ST. Recurrent layers often struggle with unstable optimization and poor convergence when modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ruwen Fulek , Markus Lange-Hegermann

There are many problems in physics, biology, and other natural sciences in which symbolic regression can provide valuable insights and discover new laws of nature. A widespread Deep Neural Networks do not provide interpretable solutions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sergei Popov , Mikhail Lazarev , Vladislav Belavin , Denis Derkach , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

Unsupervised disentangled representation learning from the unlabelled audio data, and high fidelity audio generation have become two linchpins in the machine learning research fields. However, the representation learned from an unsupervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , Björn W Schuller

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are essential tools in end-to-end representation learning. However, the sequential text generation common pitfall with VAEs is that the model tends to ignore latent variables with a strong auto-regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhao , Ping Yu , Suchismit Mahapatra , Qinliang Su , Changyou Chen

Retrieval-augmented language models show promise in addressing issues like outdated information and hallucinations in language models (LMs). However, current research faces two main problems: 1) determining what information to retrieve, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jingcheng Deng , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular probabilistic generative model. However, one shortcoming of VAEs is that the latent variables cannot be discrete, which makes it difficult to generate data from different modes of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Jay A. Hennig , Akash Umakantha , Ryan C. Williamson

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu

Recent work in synthetic data generation in the time-series domain has focused on the use of Generative Adversarial Networks. We propose a novel architecture for synthetically generating time-series data with the use of Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Abhyuday Desai , Cynthia Freeman , Zuhui Wang , Ian Beaver

The dynamical variational autoencoders (DVAEs) are a family of latent-variable deep generative models that extends the VAE to model a sequence of observed data and a corresponding sequence of latent vectors. In almost all the DVAEs of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Xiaoyu Lin , Xiaoyu Bie , Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Training deep generative models with maximum likelihood remains a challenge. The typical workaround is to use variational inference (VI) and maximize a lower bound to the log marginal likelihood of the data. Variational auto-encoders (VAEs)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-13 Adji B. Dieng , John Paisley

It is increasingly considered that human speech perception and production both rely on articulatory representations. In this paper, we investigate whether this type of representation could improve the performances of a deep generative model…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Marc-Antoine Georges , Laurent Girin , Jean-Luc Schwartz , Thomas Hueber

Current state-of-the-art generative approaches frequently rely on a two-stage training procedure, where an autoencoder (often a VAE) first performs dimensionality reduction, followed by training a generative model on the learned latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Gianluigi Silvestri , Luca Ambrogioni