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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…

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The ever-increasing size of modern data sets combined with the difficulty of obtaining label information has made semi-supervised learning one of the problems of significant practical importance in modern data analysis. We revisit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Diederik P. Kingma , Danilo J. Rezende , Shakir Mohamed , Max Welling

Recent advances in semi-supervised learning with deep generative models have shown promise in generalizing from small labeled datasets ($\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}$) to large unlabeled ones ($\mathbf{x}$). In the case where the codomain has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Ian Gemp , Ishan Durugkar , Mario Parente , M. Darby Dyar , Sridhar Mahadevan

Identifying customer segments in retail banking portfolios with different risk profiles can improve the accuracy of credit scoring. The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has shown promising results in different research domains, and it has been…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Rogelio Andrade Mancisidor , Michael Kampffmeyer , Kjersti Aas , Robert Jenssen

Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

High resolution galaxy spectra contain much information about galactic physics, but the high dimensionality of these spectra makes it difficult to fully utilize the information they contain. We apply variational autoencoders (VAEs), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-13 Stephen K. N. Portillo , John K. Parejko , Jorge R. Vergara , Andrew J. Connolly

The ability of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to learn disentangled representations has made them popular for practical applications. However, their behaviour is not yet fully understood. For example, the questions of when they can provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Lisa Bonheme , Marek Grzes

To achieve reliable mining results for massive vessel trajectories, one of the most important challenges is how to efficiently compute the similarities between different vessel trajectories. The computation of vessel trajectory similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Maohan Liang , Ryan Wen Liu , Shichen Li , Zhe Xiao , Xin Liu , Feng Lu

In this paper, an unsupervised deep learning framework based on dual-path model-driven variational auto-encoders (VAE) is proposed for angle-of-arrivals (AoAs) and channel estimation in massive MIMO systems. Specifically designed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Zhiheng Guo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Xiang Chen

Deep generative models (DGMs) have achieved remarkable advances. Semi-supervised variational auto-encoders (SVAE) as a classical DGM offer a principled framework to effectively generalize from small labelled data to large unlabelled ones,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Zaiqiao Meng , Shangsong Liang , Jinyuan Fang , Teng Xiao

Galaxy model subtraction removes the smooth light of nearby galaxies so that fainter sources (e.g., stars, star clusters, background galaxies) can be identified and measured. Traditional approaches (isophotal or parametric fitting) are…

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The unsupervised training of GANs and VAEs has enabled them to generate realistic images mimicking real-world distributions and perform image-based unsupervised clustering or semi-supervised classification. Combining the power of these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Demetri Terzopoulos

We propose to learn latent space representations of radio galaxies, and train a very deep variational autoencoder (\protect\Verb+VDVAE+) on RGZ DR1, an unlabeled dataset, to this end. We show that the encoded features can be leveraged for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-15 Sambatra Andrianomena , Hongming Tang

Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, one can hope to detect out-of-distribution (abnormal) latent vectors, but several issues arise when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alejandro Ascarate , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

We present Self-Classifier -- a novel self-supervised end-to-end classification learning approach. Self-Classifier learns labels and representations simultaneously in a single-stage end-to-end manner by optimizing for same-class prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Elad Amrani , Leonid Karlinsky , Alex Bronstein

Recently, variational autoencoders have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then used to perform speech enhancement. However, variational autoencoders are trained on clean speech only, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Guillaume Carbajal , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Neural Networks play a growing role in many science disciplines, including physics. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are neural networks that are able to represent the essential information of a high dimensional data set in a low dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-08 Johannes Zacherl , Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin

Autoencoders (AE) are simple yet powerful class of neural networks that compress data by projecting input into low-dimensional latent space (LS). Whereas LS is formed according to the loss function minimization during training, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Nikita Gabdullin

The Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) enhances the flexibility of the data stream method in exploiting unlabeled samples. Nonetheless, the feasibility of DAE for data stream analytic deserves an in-depth study because it characterizes a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Andri Ashfahani , Mahardhika Pratama , Edwin Lughofer , Yew Soon Ong

In this paper, we introduce a learning model able to conceals personal information (e.g. gender, age, ethnicity, etc.) from an image, while maintaining any additional information present in the image (e.g. smile, hair-style, brightness).…

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