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In this paper, we introduce a novel generative model, Diffusion Layout Transformers without Autoencoder (Dolfin), which significantly improves the modeling capability with reduced complexity compared to existing methods. Dolfin employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yilin Wang , Zeyuan Chen , Liangjun Zhong , Zheng Ding , Zhizhou Sha , Zhuowen Tu

Driving in the dynamic, multi-agent, and complex urban environment is a difficult task requiring a complex decision policy. The learning of such a policy requires a state representation that can encode the entire environment. Mid-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Eshagh Kargar , Ville Kyrki

Classical nonlinear dimensionality reduction (NLDR) techniques like t-SNE, Isomap, and LLE excel at creating low-dimensional embeddings for data visualization but fundamentally lack the ability to map these embeddings back to the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Riddhish Thakare , Kingdom Mutala Akugri

Suitable lateral connections between encoder and decoder are shown to allow higher layers of a denoising autoencoder (dAE) to focus on invariant representations. In regular autoencoders, detailed information needs to be carried through the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Antti Rasmus , Tapani Raiko , Harri Valpola

Neuroevolution is a promising area of research that combines evolutionary algorithms with neural networks. A popular subclass of neuroevolutionary methods, called evolution strategies, relies on dense noise perturbations to mutate networks,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Inspired by recent advances in diffusion models, which are reminiscent of denoising autoencoders, we investigate whether they can acquire discriminative representations for classification via generative pre-training. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Weilai Xiang , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Enhanced modeling of microlensing variations in light curves of strongly lensed quasars improves measurements of cosmological time delays, the Hubble Constant, and quasar structure. Traditional methods for modeling extra-galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Somayeh Khakpash , Federica Bianco , Georgios Vernardos , Gregory Dobler , Charles Keeton

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning framework that automatically learns representations from input computer-aided design (CAD) models for downstream tasks, including part classification, modeling segmentation, and machining…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yifei Li , Kang Wu , Wenming Wu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. In this work, we demonstrate that diffusion models can also \textit{generate high-performing neural network parameters}. Our approach is simple, utilizing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kai Wang , Dongwen Tang , Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhaopan Xu , Yukun Zhou , Zelin Zang , Trevor Darrell , Zhuang Liu , Yang You

The idea of using a deep autoencoder to encode seismic waveform features and then use them in different seismological applications is appealing. In this paper, we designed tests to evaluate this idea of using autoencoders as feature…

Most work on supervised learning research has focused on marginal predictions. In decision problems, joint predictive distributions are essential for good performance. Previous work has developed methods for assessing low-order predictive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-01 Ian Osband , Zheng Wen , Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Vikranth Dwaracherla , Xiuyuan Lu , Benjamin Van Roy

Deep unfolding is a method of growing popularity that fuses iterative optimization algorithms with tools from neural networks to efficiently solve a range of tasks in machine learning, signal and image processing, and communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-09 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Christoph Studer

A network supporting deep unsupervised learning is presented. The network is an autoencoder with lateral shortcut connections from the encoder to decoder at each level of the hierarchy. The lateral shortcut connections allow the higher…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Harri Valpola

Autoencoders are unsupervised machine learning circuits whose learning goal is to minimize a distortion measure between inputs and outputs. Linear autoencoders can be defined over any field and only real-valued linear autoencoder have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Pierre Baldi , Zhiqin Lu

The number of studies that combine Evolutionary Machine Learning and self-supervised learning has been growing steadily in recent years. Evolutionary Machine Learning has been shown to help automate the design of machine learning algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Adriano Vinhas , João Correia , Penousal Machado

In large-scale distributed scenarios, increasingly complex tasks demand more intelligent collaboration across networks, requiring the joint extraction of structural representations from data samples. However, conventional task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhuojun Tian , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

What do auto-encoders learn about the underlying data generating distribution? Recent work suggests that some auto-encoder variants do a good job of capturing the local manifold structure of data. This paper clarifies some of these previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Guillaume Alain , Yoshua Bengio

General-purpose planning algorithms for automated driving combine mission, behavior, and local motion planning. Such planning algorithms map features of the environment and driving kinematics into complex reward functions. To achieve this,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Sascha Rosbach , Vinit James , Simon Großjohann , Silviu Homoceanu , Xing Li , Stefan Roth

Identifying computational mechanisms for memorization and retrieval of data is a long-standing problem at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Our main finding is that standard overparameterized deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Mikhail Belkin , Caroline Uhler

In this paper, we describe the "implicit autoencoder" (IAE), a generative autoencoder in which both the generative path and the recognition path are parametrized by implicit distributions. We use two generative adversarial networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Alireza Makhzani