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Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have become very popular techniques to perform inference and learning in latent variable models as they allow us to leverage the rich representational power of neural networks to obtain flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Anthony L. Caterini , Arnaud Doucet , Dino Sejdinovic

Syntactic information contains structures and rules about how text sentences are arranged. Incorporating syntax into text modeling methods can potentially benefit both representation learning and generation. Variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Yijun Xiao , William Yang Wang

Constructing a compressed latent space through a variational autoencoder (VAE) is the key for efficient 3D diffusion models. This paper introduces COD-VAE that encodes 3D shapes into a COmpact set of 1D latent vectors without sacrificing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 In Cho , Youngbeom Yoo , Subin Jeon , Seon Joo Kim

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jason Chou

The key idea of variational auto-encoders (VAEs) resembles that of traditional auto-encoder models in which spatial information is supposed to be explicitly encoded in the latent space. However, the latent variables in VAEs are vectors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Zhengyang Wang , Hao Yuan , Shuiwang Ji

Normalizing flows, autoregressive models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep energy-based models are among competing likelihood-based frameworks for deep generative learning. Among them, VAEs have the advantage of fast and tractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-11 Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

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

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

We present a novel introspective variational autoencoder (IntroVAE) model for synthesizing high-resolution photographic images. IntroVAE is capable of self-evaluating the quality of its generated samples and improving itself accordingly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Huaibo Huang , Zhihang Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Fair and unbiased machine learning is an important and active field of research, as decision processes are increasingly driven by models that learn from data. Unfortunately, any biases present in the data may be learned by the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Understanding the structure of complex, nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals is a central challenge in scientific data analysis. In many domains, such as speech and biomedical signal processing, the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Aamna Al Shehhi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

Discrete latent bottlenecks in variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer high bit efficiency and can be modeled with autoregressive discrete distributions, enabling parameter-efficient multimodal search with transformers. However, discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Michael Drolet , Firas Al-Hafez , Aditya Bhatt , Jan Peters , Oleg Arenz

We investigate a variant of variational autoencoders where there is a superstructure of discrete latent variables on top of the latent features. In general, our superstructure is a tree structure of multiple super latent variables and it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Xiaopeng Li , Zhourong Chen , Leonard K. M. Poon , Nevin L. Zhang

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have been widely applied for learning compact, low-dimensional latent representations of high-dimensional data. When the correlation structure among data points is available, previous work proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Nicholas Ruozzi , Tony Jebara

Deep latent variable models, trained using variational autoencoders or generative adversarial networks, are now a key technique for representation learning of continuous structures. However, applying similar methods to discrete structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Jake Zhao , Yoon Kim , Kelly Zhang , Alexander M. Rush , Yann LeCun

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is a widely used generative model for learning latent representations. Burda et al. in their seminal paper showed that learning capacity of VAE is limited by over-pruning. It is a phenomenon where a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Martin Kleinsteuber

Learning a robust video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is essential for reducing video redundancy and facilitating efficient video generation. Directly applying image VAEs to individual frames in isolation can result in temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yazhou Xing , Yang Fei , Yingqing He , Jingye Chen , Jiaxin Xie , Xiaowei Chi , Qifeng Chen

In recent years, the field of machine learning has made phenomenal progress in the pursuit of simulating real-world data generation processes. One notable example of such success is the variational autoencoder (VAE). In this work, with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-30 Hwan Goh , Sheroze Sheriffdeen , Jonathan Wittmer , Tan Bui-Thanh

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are a popular generative model, but one in which conditional inference can be challenging. If the decomposition into query and evidence variables is fixed, conditional VAEs provide an attractive solution. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-05 Ga Wu , Justin Domke , Scott Sanner

One of the major shortcomings of variational autoencoders is the inability to produce generations from the individual modalities of data originating from mixture distributions. This is primarily due to the use of a simple isotropic Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Frantzeska Lavda , Magda Gregorová , Alexandros Kalousis