English
Related papers

Related papers: Certifiably Robust Variational Autoencoders

200 papers

We propose the Wasserstein Auto-Encoder (WAE)---a new algorithm for building a generative model of the data distribution. WAE minimizes a penalized form of the Wasserstein distance between the model distribution and the target distribution,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-06 Ilya Tolstikhin , Olivier Bousquet , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schoelkopf

Text variational autoencoders (VAEs) are notorious for posterior collapse, a phenomenon where the model's decoder learns to ignore signals from the encoder. Because posterior collapse is known to be exacerbated by expressive decoders,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Seongmin Park , Jihwa Lee

Variational Autoencoders are one of the most commonly used generative models, particularly for image data. A prominent difficulty in training VAEs is data that is supported on a lower-dimensional manifold. Recent work by Dai and Wipf (2020)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Frederic Koehler , Viraj Mehta , Chenghui Zhou , Andrej Risteski

The high cost of acquiring labels is one of the main challenges in deploying supervised machine learning algorithms. Active learning is a promising approach to control the learning process and address the difficulties of data labeling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Michael B. Wakin

We present a coupled Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) method that improves the accuracy and robustness of the probabilistic inferences on represented data. The new method models the dependency between input feature vectors (images) and weighs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shichen Cao , Jingjing Li , Kenric P. Nelson , Mark A. Kon

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a popular and powerful deep generative model. Previous works on VAEs have assumed a factorized likelihood model, whereby the output uncertainty of each pixel is assumed to be independent. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Gara Dorta , Sara Vicente , Lourdes Agapito , Neill D. F. Campbell , Ivor Simpson

Successfully training Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) with a hierarchy of discrete latent variables remains an area of active research. Vector-Quantised VAEs are a powerful approach to discrete VAEs, but naive hierarchical extensions can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-05 Matthew Willetts , Xenia Miscouridou , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful deep generative models widely used to represent high-dimensional complex data through a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Laurent Girin , Simon Leglaive , Xiaoyu Bie , Julien Diard , Thomas Hueber , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

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

Traditional adversarial examples are typically generated by adding perturbation noise to the input image within a small matrix norm. In practice, un-restricted adversarial attack has raised great concern and presented a new threat to the AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Shibao Zheng

Boltzmann machines are powerful distributions that have been shown to be an effective prior over binary latent variables in variational autoencoders (VAEs). However, previous methods for training discrete VAEs have used the evidence lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-17 Arash Vahdat , Evgeny Andriyash , William G. Macready

Adversarial robustness and generalization are both crucial properties of reliable machine learning models. In this paper, we study these properties in the context of quantum machine learning based on Lipschitz bounds. We derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Julian Berberich , Daniel Fink , Daniel Pranjić , Christian Tutschku , Christian Holm

We introduce a framework that integrates variational autoencoders (VAE) with reinforcement learning (RL) to balance system performance and resource usage in multi-agent systems by dynamically adjusting network structures over time. A key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Qiliang Chen , Babak Heydari

Recent studies have highlighted the potential of Lipschitz-based methods for training certifiably robust neural networks against adversarial attacks. A key challenge, supported both theoretically and empirically, is that robustness demands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Kai Hu , Klas Leino , Zifan Wang , Matt Fredrikson

Recent work has shown that Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) can be used to upper-bound the information rate-distortion (R-D) function of images, i.e., the fundamental limit of lossy image compression. In this paper, we report an improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Zhihao Duan , Jack Ma , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Layout design with complex constraints is a challenging problem to solve due to the non-uniqueness of the solution and the difficulties in incorporating the constraints into the conventional optimization-based methods. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-11 Yujie Zhang , Wenjing Ye

While most frontier models still use deterministic frequency-based tokenization algorithms such as byte-pair encoding (BPE), there has been significant recent work to design learned neural tokenizers. However, these schemes generally add to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Theo Datta , Kayla Huang , Sham Kakade , David Brandfonbrener

We present a conditional variational auto-encoder (VAE) which, to avoid the substantial cost of training from scratch, uses an architecture and training objective capable of leveraging a foundation model in the form of a pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 William Harvey , Saeid Naderiparizi , Frank Wood

Selective manipulation of data attributes using deep generative models is an active area of research. In this paper, we present a novel method to structure the latent space of a Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) to encode different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Ashis Pati , Alexander Lerch

Improving adversarial robustness of neural networks remains a major challenge. Fundamentally, training a neural network via gradient descent is a parameter estimation problem. In adaptive control, maintaining persistency of excitation (PoE)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-18 Kaustubh Sridhar , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee , James Weimer
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›