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Previous work explored blending levels from existing games to create levels for a new game that mixes properties of the original games. In this paper, we use Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for improving upon such techniques. VAEs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Anurag Sarkar , Zhihan Yang , Seth Cooper

Devising deep latent variable models for multi-modal data has been a long-standing theme in machine learning research. Multi-modal Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been a popular generative model class that learns latent representations…

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Wind turbine reliability is critical to the growing renewable energy sector, where early fault detection significantly reduces downtime and maintenance costs. This paper introduces a novel ensemble-based deep learning framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Rekha R Nair , Tina Babu , Alavikunhu Panthakkan , Balamurugan Balusamy , Wathiq Mansoor

Ensembles are a popular way to improve results of discriminative CNNs. The combination of several networks trained starting from different initializations improves results significantly. In this paper we investigate the usage of ensembles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Yaxing Wang , Lichao Zhang , Joost van de Weijer

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are popular likelihood-based generative models which can be efficiently trained by maximizing an Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO). There has been much progress in improving the expressiveness of the variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Marcel Hirt , Vasileios Kreouzis , Petros Dellaportas

In recent years Variation Autoencoders have become one of the most popular unsupervised learning of complicated distributions.Variational Autoencoder (VAE) provides more efficient reconstructive performance over a traditional autoencoder.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Gautam Ramachandra

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 manifold hypothesis states that high-dimensional data can be modeled as lying on or near a low-dimensional, nonlinear manifold. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) approximate this manifold by learning mappings from low-dimensional latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-03 Marissa C. Connor , Gregory H. Canal , Christopher J. Rozell

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are popular tools for generative modeling. The dynamics of their adversarial learning give rise to convergence pathologies during training such as mode and discriminator collapse. In machine learning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jamal Toutouh , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Generative modelling is a key tool in unsupervised machine learning which has achieved stellar success in recent years. Despite this huge success, even the best generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Aratrika Mustafi

Variational auto-encoders are powerful probabilistic models in generative tasks but suffer from generating low-quality samples which are caused by the holes in the prior. We propose the Coupled Variational Auto-Encoder (C-VAE), which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Xiaoran Hao , Patrick Shafto

Recently, audio-visual speech enhancement has been tackled in the unsupervised settings based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs), where during training only clean data is used to train a generative model for speech, which at test time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Mostafa Sadeghi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Learning latent representations that are simultaneously expressive, geometrically well-structured, and reliably calibrated remains a central challenge for Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). Standard VAEs typically assume a diagonal Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mehmet Can Yavuz

This study investigates the use of non-linear unsupervised dimensionality reduction techniques to compress a music dataset into a low-dimensional representation which can be used in turn for the synthesis of new sounds. We systematically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-27 Fanny Roche , Thomas Hueber , Samuel Limier , Laurent Girin

Cross-modal representation learning allows to integrate information from different modalities into one representation. At the same time, research on generative models tends to focus on the visual domain with less emphasis on other domains,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

The Gaussianity assumption has been consistently criticized as a main limitation of the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) despite its efficiency in computational modeling. In this paper, we propose a new approach that expands the model capacity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-30 Seunghwan An , Jong-June Jeon

Sequential recommendation as an emerging topic has attracted increasing attention due to its important practical significance. Models based on deep learning and attention mechanism have achieved good performance in sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zhe Xie , Chengxuan Liu , Yichi Zhang , Hongtao Lu , Dong Wang , Yue Ding

Electron, optical, and scanning probe microscopy methods are generating ever increasing volume of image data containing information on atomic and mesoscale structures and functionalities. This necessitates the development of the machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mani Valleti , Yongtao Liu , Sergei Kalinin

In this paper, we investigate the problem of string-based molecular generation via variational autoencoders (VAEs) that have served a popular generative approach for various tasks in artificial intelligence. We propose a simple, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Kisoo Kwon , Kuhwan Jung , Junghyun Park , Hwidong Na , Jinwoo Shin

Variational autoencoders (VAE) represent a popular, flexible form of deep generative model that can be stochastically fit to samples from a given random process using an information-theoretic variational bound on the true underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Bin Dai , Yu Wang , John Aston , Gang Hua , David Wipf