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Autoencoders have been widely used for dimensional reduction and feature extraction. Various types of autoencoders have been proposed by introducing regularization terms. Most of these regularizations improve representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yuzhu Guo , Kang Pan , Simeng Li , Zongchang Han , Kexin Wang , Li Li

We consider the problem of learning Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), i.e., a type of deep generative model, from data with missing values. Such data is omnipresent in real-world applications of machine learning because complete data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Timur Sudak , Sebastian Tschiatschek

Despite the empirical success of Diffusion Models (DMs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), their generalization performance remains theoretically underexplored, especially lacking a full consideration of the shared encoder-generator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qi Chen , Jierui Zhu , Florian Shkurti

Our understanding of learning input-output relationships with neural nets has improved rapidly in recent years, but little is known about the convergence of the underlying representations, even in the simple case of linear autoencoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Xuchan Bao , James Lucas , Sushant Sachdeva , Roger Grosse

Deep generative models have made tremendous advances in image and signal representation learning and generation. These models employ the full Euclidean space or a bounded subset as the latent space, whose flat geometry, however, is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Stefan Schonsheck , Jie Chen , Rongjie Lai

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

The central question in representation learning is what constitutes a good or meaningful representation. In this work we argue that if we consider data with inherent cluster structures, where clusters can be characterized through different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Pascal Mattia Esser , Satyaki Mukherjee , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

While much work has been devoted to understanding the implicit (and explicit) regularization of deep nonlinear networks in the supervised setting, this paper focuses on unsupervised learning, i.e., autoencoders are trained with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Harald Steck , Dario Garcia Garcia

Artificial neural networks perform state-of-the-art in an ever-growing number of tasks, and nowadays they are used to solve an incredibly large variety of tasks. There are problems, like the presence of biases in the training data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Enzo Tartaglione , Carlo Alberto Barbano , Marco Grangetto

While many phenomena in physics and engineering are formally high-dimensional, their long-time dynamics often live on a lower-dimensional manifold. The present work introduces an autoencoder framework that combines implicit regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Kevin Zeng , Carlos E. Pérez De Jesús , Andrew J. Fox , Michael D. Graham

The ability of deep neural networks to generalize well in the overparameterized regime has become a subject of significant research interest. We show that overparameterized autoencoders exhibit memorization, a form of inductive bias that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Karren Yang , Mikhail Belkin , Caroline Uhler

Auto-encoders are perhaps the best-known non-probabilistic methods for representation learning. They are conceptually simple and easy to train. Recent theoretical work has shed light on their ability to capture manifold structure, and drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Graham W. Taylor

We propose a novel way to measure and understand convolutional neural networks by quantifying the amount of input signal they let in. To do this, an autoencoder (AE) was fine-tuned on gradients from a pre-trained classifier with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Sebastian Palacio , Joachim Folz , Jörn Hees , Federico Raue , Damian Borth , Andreas Dengel

We consider the problem of image representation for the tasks of unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning. In those learning tasks, the raw image vectors may not provide enough representation for their intrinsic structures due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang , Yong Liu

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to extract interpretable features from neural network representations, often under the implicit assumption that concepts correspond to independent linear directions. However, a growing body of…

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a theoretically-backed and popular framework for deep generative models. However, learning a VAE from data poses still unanswered theoretical questions and considerable practical challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Partha Ghosh , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Antonio Vergari , Michael Black , Bernhard Schölkopf

The literature about history matching is vast and despite the impressive number of methods proposed and the significant progresses reported in the last decade, conditioning reservoir models to dynamic data is still a challenging task.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-29 Smith W. A. Canchumuni , Alexandre A. Emerick , Marco Aurélio C. Pacheco

Graph neural networks have been used for a variety of learning tasks, such as link prediction, node classification, and node clustering. Among them, link prediction is a relatively under-studied graph learning task, with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xinxing Wu , Qiang Cheng

In the last few years there have been important advancements in generative models with the two dominant approaches being Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). However, standard Autoencoders (AEs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Patrick Fox-Roberts , Edward Rosten

With advancements of deep learning techniques, it is now possible to generate super-realistic images and videos, i.e., deepfakes. These deepfakes could reach mass audience and result in adverse impacts on our society. Although lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mengnan Du , Shiva Pentyala , Yuening Li , Xia Hu