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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

Sensor fusion can significantly improve the performance of many computer vision tasks. However, traditional fusion approaches are either not data-driven and cannot exploit prior knowledge nor find regularities in a given dataset or they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Fabian Duffhauss , Ngo Anh Vien , Hanna Ziesche , Gerhard Neumann

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are popular generative models used to sample from complex data distributions. Despite their empirical success in various machine learning tasks, significant gaps remain in understanding their theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-23 Sobihan Surendran , Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sylvain Le Corff

Normalizing flows are a powerful class of generative models for continuous random variables, showing both strong model flexibility and the potential for non-autoregressive generation. These benefits are also desired when modeling discrete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Zachary M. Ziegler , Alexander M. Rush

Variational Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks remained the state-of-the-art (SOTA) generative models until 2022. Now they are superseded by diffusion-based models. Efforts to improve traditional models have stagnated as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tuhin Subhra De

The variational autoencoder (VAE; Kingma, Welling (2014)) is a recently proposed generative model pairing a top-down generative network with a bottom-up recognition network which approximates posterior inference. It typically makes strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yuri Burda , Roger Grosse , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are widely used deep generative models capable of learning unsupervised latent representations of data. Such representations are often difficult to interpret or control. We consider the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jack Klys , Jake Snell , Richard Zemel

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

Deep probabilistic generative models have achieved incredible success in many fields of application. Among such models, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have proved their ability in modeling a generative process by learning a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello , Aurelio Uncini

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have witnessed great success in performing the compression of image datasets. This success, made possible by the bits-back coding framework, has produced competitive compression performance across many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Tom Ryder , Chen Zhang , Ning Kang , Shifeng Zhang

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is a probabilistic machine learning framework for posterior inference that projects an input set of high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional, latent space. The latent space learned with a VAE offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rafael Pastrana

VAEs are probabilistic graphical models based on neural networks that allow the coding of input data in a latent space formed by simpler probability distributions and the reconstruction, based on such latent variables, of the source data.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jordi de la Torre

We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds. We redevelop the VAE framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrew Gracyk

Among likelihood-based approaches for deep generative modelling, variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer scalable amortized posterior inference and fast sampling. However, VAEs are also more and more outperformed by competing models such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Antoine Wehenkel , Gilles Louppe

Among the wide variety of image generative models, two models stand out: Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). GANs can produce realistic images, but they suffer from mode collapse and do not provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) has been attracting increasing attention as it can benefit a wide range of applications, e.g., enabling mobile systems with limited computing resources to own powerful visual recognition ability. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiaonan Luo , Lei Zhang

By composing graphical models with deep learning architectures, we learn generative models with the strengths of both frameworks. The structured variational autoencoder (SVAE) inherits structure and interpretability from graphical models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Harry Bendekgey , Gabriel Hope , Erik B. Sudderth

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that can be used for learning the distribution of complex data. VAEs have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mostafa Sadeghi , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-PIneda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Inverse problems often involve matching observational data using a physical model that takes a large number of parameters as input. These problems tend to be under-constrained and require regularization to impose additional structure on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel O'Malley , John K. Golden , Velimir V. Vesselinov

Recently introduced EASE algorithm presents a simple and elegant way, how to solve the top-N recommendation task. In this paper, we introduce Neural EASE to further improve the performance of this algorithm by incorporating techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Vojtěch Vančura , Pavel Kordík