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Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that have been widely used in various fields, including image and text generation. However, one of the known challenges in using VAEs is the model's sensitivity to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriela Sejnova , Michal Vavrecka , Karla Stepanova

We propose a new method to define anomaly scores and apply this to particle physics collider events. Anomalies can be either rare, meaning that these events are a minority in the normal dataset, or different, meaning they have values that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Rob Verheyen

In today's digital world, the generation of vast amounts of streaming data in various domains has become ubiquitous. However, many of these data are unlabeled, making it challenging to identify events, particularly anomalies. This task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

We present a deep metric variational autoencoder for multi-modal data generation. The variational autoencoder employs triplet loss in the latent space, which allows for conditional data generation by sampling in the latent space within each…

We propose a method that performs anomaly detection and localisation within heterogeneous data using a pairwise undirected mixed graphical model. The data are a mixture of categorical and quantitative variables, and the model is learned…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-21 Romain Laby , François Roueff , Alexandre Gramfort

In this paper, we consider the problem of conditional anomaly detection that aims to identify data instances with an unusual response or a class label. We develop a new non-parametric approach for conditional anomaly detection based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Michal Valko , Branislav Kveton , Hamed Valizadegan , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

Existing industrial anomaly detection methods mainly determine whether an anomaly is present. However, real-world applications also require discovering and classifying multiple anomaly types. Since industrial anomalies are semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Botong Zhao , Qijun Shi , Shujing Lyu , Yue Lu

Conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs) are versatile deep generative models that extend the standard VAE framework by conditioning the generative model with auxiliary covariates. The original CVAE model assumes that the data samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-03 Siddharth Ramchandran , Gleb Tikhonov , Otto Lönnroth , Pekka Tiikkainen , Harri Lähdesmäki

Previous transfer methods for anomaly detection generally assume the availability of labeled data in source or target domains. However, such an assumption is not valid in most real applications where large-scale labeled data are too…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Cangning Fan , Fangyi Zhang , Peng Liu , Xiuyu Sun , Hao Li , Ting Xiao , Wei Zhao , Xianglong Tang

In variational autoencoders, the prior on the latent codes $z$ is often treated as an afterthought, but the prior shapes the kind of latent representation that the model learns. If the goal is to learn a representation that is interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Sharad Vikram , Matthew D. Hoffman , Matthew J. Johnson

Anomaly detection methods can be very useful in identifying unusual or interesting patterns in data. A recently proposed conditional anomaly detection framework extends anomaly detection to the problem of identifying anomalous patterns on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Michal Valko , Milos Hauskrecht

Rotating machines like engines, pumps, or turbines are ubiquitous in modern day societies. Their mechanical parts such as electrical engines, rotors, or bearings are the major components and any failure in them may result in their total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Sabtain Ahmad , Kevin Styp-Rekowski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Odej Kao

Traditional acoustic environment classification relies on: i) classical signal processing algorithms, which are unable to extract meaningful representations of high-dimensional data; or on ii) supervised learning, limited by the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Ivana Nikoloska , Wim van Houtum , Ronald M. Aarts

Variational autoencoders have been widely applied for natural language generation, however, there are two long-standing problems: information under-representation and posterior collapse. The former arises from the fact that only the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Xianghong Fang , Haoli Bai , Zenglin Xu , Michael Lyu , Irwin King

In this paper, we propose a novel variational generator framework for conditional GANs to catch semantic details for improving the generation quality and diversity. Traditional generators in conditional GANs simply concatenate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mingqi Hu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He

In this paper, we propose a variational autoencoder with disentanglement priors, VAE-DPRIOR, for task-specific natural language generation with none or a handful of task-specific labeled examples. In order to tackle compositional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Qiongkai Xu , Tongtong Wu , Tianyang Zhan , Gholamreza Haffari

We develop a new framework for learning variational autoencoders and other deep generative models that balances generative and discriminative goals. Our framework optimizes model parameters to maximize a variational lower bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Gabriel Hope , Madina Abdrakhmanova , Xiaoyin Chen , Michael C. Hughes , Michael C. Hughes , Erik B. Sudderth

We present a generative modeling approach based on the variational inference framework for likelihood-free simulation-based inference. The method leverages latent variables within variational autoencoders to efficiently estimate complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Mayank Nautiyal , Andrey Shternshis , Andreas Hellander , Prashant Singh

The framework of variational autoencoders allows us to efficiently learn deep latent-variable models, such that the model's marginal distribution over observed variables fits the data. Often, we're interested in going a step further, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-22 Ilyes Khemakhem , Diederik P. Kingma , Ricardo Pio Monti , Aapo Hyvärinen

Assigning consistent temporal identifiers to multiple moving objects in a video sequence is a challenging problem. A solution to that problem would have immediate ramifications in multiple object tracking and segmentation problems. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Abubakar Siddique , Reza Jalil Mozhdehi , Henry Medeiros