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In this paper, we propose the "adversarial autoencoder" (AAE), which is a probabilistic autoencoder that uses the recently proposed generative adversarial networks (GAN) to perform variational inference by matching the aggregated posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Alireza Makhzani , Jonathon Shlens , Navdeep Jaitly , Ian Goodfellow , Brendan Frey

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are fundamental for generative modeling and image reconstruction, yet their performance often struggles to maintain high fidelity in reconstructions. This study introduces a hybrid model, quantum variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Farina Riaz , Fakhar Zaman , Hajime Suzuki , Sharif Abuadbba , David Nguyen

Conventional variational autoencoders fail in modeling correlations between data points due to their use of factorized priors. Amortized Gaussian process inference through GP-VAEs has led to significant improvements in this regard, but is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-25 Metod Jazbec , Matthew Ashman , Vincent Fortuin , Michael Pearce , Stephan Mandt , Gunnar Rätsch

We introduce a novel variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture that can generate realistic and diverse high energy physics events. The model we propose utilizes several techniques from VAE literature in order to simulate high fidelity jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 Kosei Dohi

We investigate the problem of producing diverse solutions to an image super-resolution problem. From a probabilistic perspective, this can be done by sampling from the posterior distribution of an inverse problem, which requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jean Prost , Antoine Houdard , Andrés Almansa , Nicolas Papadakis

Deep generative models are commonly used for generating images and text. Interpretability of these models is one important pursuit, other than the generation quality. Variational auto-encoder (VAE) with Gaussian distribution as prior has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Wenxian Shi , Hao Zhou , Ning Miao , Lei Li

Recent work in unsupervised learning has focused on efficient inference and learning in latent variables models. Training these models by maximizing the evidence (marginal likelihood) is typically intractable. Thus, a common approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Linh Tran , Maja Pantic , Marc Peter Deisenroth

The variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a deep latent variable model that has two neural networks in an autoencoder-like architecture; one of them parameterizes the model's likelihood. Fitting its parameters via maximum likelihood (ML) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Michalis K. Titsias , Taylan Cemgil , Arnaud Doucet

Many inverse problems focus on recovering a quantity of interest that is a priori known to exhibit either discontinuous or smooth behavior. Within the Bayesian approach to inverse problems, such structural information can be encoded using…

Computation · Statistics 2024-07-16 Angelina Senchukova , Felipe Uribe , Lassi Roininen

In this tutorial, we explore Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), an essential framework for unsupervised learning, particularly suited for high-dimensional datasets such as neuroimaging. By integrating deep learning with Bayesian inference,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 C. Vázquez-García , F. J. Martínez-Murcia , F. Segovia Román , Juan M. Górriz Sáez

A Coupled Variational Autoencoder, which incorporates both a generalized loss function and latent layer distribution, shows improvement in the accuracy and robustness of generated replicas of MNIST numerals. The latent layer uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kevin R. Chen , Daniel Svoboda , Kenric P. Nelson

With the increasingly widespread deployment of generative models, there is a mounting need for a deeper understanding of their behaviors and limitations. In this paper, we expose the limitations of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Shakir Mohamed

Recently, a generative variational autoencoder (VAE) has been proposed for speech enhancement to model speech statistics. However, this approach only uses clean speech in the training phase, making the estimation particularly sensitive to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Huajian Fang , Guillaume Carbajal , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

The ability to extract generative parameters from high-dimensional fields of data in an unsupervised manner is a highly desirable yet unrealized goal in computational physics. This work explores the use of variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Christian Jacobsen , Karthik Duraisamy

Being one of the most popular generative framework, variational autoencoders(VAE) are known to suffer from a phenomenon termed posterior collapse, i.e. the latent variational distributions collapse to the prior, especially when a strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Renfei Tu , Yang Liu , Yongzeng Xue , Cheng Wang , Maozu Guo

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

Boltzmann machines are powerful distributions that have been shown to be an effective prior over binary latent variables in variational autoencoders (VAEs). However, previous methods for training discrete VAEs have used the evidence lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-17 Arash Vahdat , Evgeny Andriyash , William G. Macready

Missing data persists as a major barrier to data analysis across numerous applications. Recently, deep generative models have been used for imputation of missing data, motivated by their ability to capture highly non-linear and complex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Breeshey Roskams-Hieter , Jude Wells , Sara Wade

We combine conditional variational autoencoders (VAE) with adversarial censoring in order to learn invariant representations that are disentangled from nuisance/sensitive variations. In this method, an adversarial network attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Deniz Erdogmus

Modelling longitudinal data is an important yet challenging task. These datasets can be high-dimensional, contain non-linear effects and time-varying covariates. Gaussian process (GP) prior-based variational autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Priscilla Ong , Manuel Haußmann , Otto Lönnroth , Harri Lähdesmäki