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Extracting large amounts of data from biological samples is not feasible due to radiation issues, and image processing in the small-data regime is one of the critical challenges when working with a limited amount of data. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Varun Mannam , Arman Kazemi

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have been shown to be effective in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViTs) for natural and medical image analysis problems. By reconstructing missing pixel/voxel information in visible patches, a ViT encoder can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pengfei Gu , Huimin Li , Yejia Zhang , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

The ability to extract generative parameters from high-dimensional fields of data in an unsupervised manner is a highly desirable yet unrealized goal in computational physics. This work explores the use of variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Christian Jacobsen , Karthik Duraisamy

Learning representations of underlying environmental dynamics from partial observations is a critical challenge in machine learning. In the context of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs), state representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Han , Debabrota Basu , Michael Mangan , Eleni Vasilaki , Aditya Gilra

The framework of variational autoencoders (VAEs) provides a principled method for jointly learning latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. However, the main drawback of this approach is the blurriness of the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Jakub M. Tomczak

We propose an out-of-distribution detection method that combines density and restoration-based approaches using Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoders (VQ-VAEs). The VQ-VAE model learns to encode images in a categorical latent space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

In this work we propose a method based on geometric deep learning to predict the complete surface of the liver, given a partial point cloud of the organ obtained during the surgical laparoscopic procedure. We introduce a new data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Thomas Dowrick , Joao Ramalhinho , Moustafa Allam , Brian Davidson , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice, but suffered from prolonged acquisition time. Although deep learning methods have been proposed to accelerate acquisition and demonstrate promising performance, they rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Hao Zhang , Qi Wang , Jian Sun , Zhijie Wen , Jun Shi , Shihui Ying

In this tutorial, we explore Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), an essential framework for unsupervised learning, particularly suited for high-dimensional datasets such as neuroimaging. By integrating deep learning with Bayesian inference,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 C. Vázquez-García , F. J. Martínez-Murcia , F. Segovia Román , Juan M. Górriz Sáez

Masked autoencoders (MAE) have shown great promise in medical image classification. However, the random masking strategy employed by traditional MAEs may overlook critical areas in medical images, where even subtle changes can indicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Joao Batista Florindo , Viviane de Moura

Latent variable models such as the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have become a go-to tool for analyzing biological data, especially in the field of single-cell genomics. One remaining challenge is the interpretability of latent variables…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-20 Romain Lopez , Nataša Tagasovska , Stephen Ra , Kyunghyn Cho , Jonathan K. Pritchard , Aviv Regev

Paradoxically, a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) could be pushed in two opposite directions, utilizing powerful decoder model for generating realistic images but collapsing the learned representation, or increasing regularization coefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Trung Ngo , Najwa Laabid , Ville Hautamäki , Merja Heinäniemi

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

Although unsupervised generative modeling of an image dataset using a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been used to detect anomalous images, or anomalous regions in images, recent works have shown that this method often identifies images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 David Dehaene , Pierre Eline

Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been extended as a representative nonlinear method for collaborative filtering. However, the bottleneck of VAE lies in the softmax computation over all items, such that it takes linear costs in the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jin Chen , Defu Lian , Binbin Jin , Xu Huang , Kai Zheng , Enhong Chen

We introduce the concept of a Modular Autoencoder (MAE), capable of learning a set of diverse but complementary representations from unlabelled data, that can later be used for supervised tasks. The learning of the representations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Henry W J Reeve , Gavin Brown

A new method for learning variational autoencoders (VAEs) is developed, based on Stein variational gradient descent. A key advantage of this approach is that one need not make parametric assumptions about the form of the encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yunchen Pu , Zhe Gan , Ricardo Henao , Chunyuan Li , Shaobo Han , Lawrence Carin

Deep generative models have demonstrated successful applications in learning non-linear data distributions through a number of latent variables and these models use a nonlinear function (generator) to map latent samples into the data space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

Blending of galaxies has a major contribution in the systematic error budget of weak lensing studies, affecting photometric and shape measurements, particularly for ground-based, deep, photometric galaxy surveys, such as the Rubin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Bastien Arcelin , Cyrille Doux , Eric Aubourg , Cécile Roucelle , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Modern radio telescopes combine thousands of receivers, long-distance networks, large-scale compute hardware, and intricate software. Due to this complexity, failures occur relatively frequently. In this work we propose novel use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Michael Mesarcik , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Christiaan Meijer , Walter Jansen , Elena Ranguelova , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort