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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

The Importance Weighted Auto Encoder (IWAE) objective has been shown to improve the training of generative models over the standard Variational Auto Encoder (VAE) objective. Here, we derive importance weighted extensions to AVB and AAE.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Sridhama Prakhya , Jinyao Yan , Srinivas Turaga , Kristin Branson

Federated learning allows for the training of machine learning models on multiple decentralized local datasets without requiring explicit data exchange. However, data pre-processing, including strategies for handling missing data, remains a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-18 Irene Balelli , Aude Sportisse , Francesco Cremonesi , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei , Marco Lorenzi

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

Unsupervised representation learning holds the promise of exploiting large amounts of unlabeled data to learn general representations. A promising technique for unsupervised learning is the framework of Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kamal Gupta , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

Missing data is a recurrent and challenging problem, especially when using machine learning algorithms for real-world applications. For this reason, missing data imputation has become an active research area, in which recent deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Simon Tihon , Muhammad Usama Javaid , Damien Fourure , Nicolas Posocco , Thomas Peel

Agricultural image recognition tasks are becoming increasingly dependent on deep learning (DL); however, despite the excellent performance of DL, it is difficult to comprehend the type of logic or features of the input image it uses during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Harshana Habaragamuwa , Yu Oishi , Kenichi Tanaka

Often the analysis of time-dependent chemical and biophysical systems produces high-dimensional time-series data for which it can be difficult to interpret which individual features are most salient. While recent work from our group and…

Missing input sequences are common in medical imaging data, posing a challenge for deep learning models reliant on complete input data. In this work, inspired by MultiMAE [2], we develop a masked autoencoder (MAE) paradigm for multi-modal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ayhan Can Erdur , Christian Beischl , Daniel Scholz , Jiazhen Pan , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Jan C Peeken

In the following short article we adapt a new and popular machine learning model for inference on medical data sets. Our method is based on the Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) framework that we adapt to survival analysis on small data sets…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-06 Cédric Beaulac , Jeffrey S. Rosenthal , David Hodgson

Handling missing data remains a fundamental challenge in real-world tabular datasets, especially when data are heterogeneous with both numerical and categorical features. Existing imputation methods often fail to capture complex structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal%

Missing data are frequently observed by practitioners and researchers in the building energy modeling community. In this regard, advanced data-driven solutions, such as Deep Learning methods, are typically required to reflect the non-linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-07 Antonio Liguori , Matias Quintana , Chun Fu , Clayton Miller , Jérôme Frisch , Christoph van Treeck

Due to complex experimental settings, missing values are common in biomedical data. To handle this issue, many methods have been proposed, from ignoring incomplete instances to various data imputation approaches. With the recent rise of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Kristian Miok , Dong Nguyen-Doan , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Daniela Zaharie

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are widely used for dimensionality reduction of large-scale tabular and image datasets, under the assumption of independence between data observations. In practice, however, datasets are often correlated, with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Giora Simchoni , Saharon Rosset

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are an influential and generally-used class of likelihood-based generative models in unsupervised learning. The likelihood-based generative models have been reported to be highly robust to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xuming Ran , Mingkun Xu , Qi Xu , Huihui Zhou , Quanying Liu

Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Tanmoy Mukherjee , Makoto Yamada , Timothy M. Hospedales

We present our submission to the Extreme Value Analysis 2021 Data Challenge in which teams were asked to accurately predict distributions of wildfire frequency and size within spatio-temporal regions of missing data. For the purpose of this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-19 Tomislav Ivek , Domagoj Vlah

Incorporating unstructured data into physical models is a challenging problem that is emerging in data assimilation. Traditional approaches focus on well-defined observation operators whose functional forms are typically assumed to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-25 Alex Glyn-Davies , Connor Duffin , Ö. Deniz Akyildiz , Mark Girolami

Dealing with missing data in data analysis is inevitable. Although powerful imputation methods that address this problem exist, there is still much room for improvement. In this study, we examined single imputation based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Najmeh Abiri , Björn Linse , Patrik Edén , Mattias Ohlsson

Advances in deep learning (DL) have resulted in impressive accuracy in some medical image classification tasks, but often deep models lack interpretability. The ability of these models to explain their decisions is important for fostering…