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Generative models have emerged as powerful tools in medical imaging, enabling tasks such as segmentation, anomaly detection, and high-quality synthetic data generation. These models typically rely on learning meaningful latent…

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While variational autoencoders have been successful in several tasks, the use of conventional priors are limited in their ability to encode the underlying structure of input data. We introduce an Encoded Prior Sliced Wasserstein AutoEncoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Jacob Bedrossian

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models with the salient ability to perform inference. Here, we introduce a quantum variational autoencoder (QVAE): a VAE whose latent generative process is implemented as a quantum…

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) enjoy an intuitive connection to manifold learning: in training the decoder/generator is optimized to approximate a homeomorphism between the data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Henry Li , Ofir Lindenbaum , Xiuyuan Cheng , Alexander Cloninger

We introduce the Kernel-Elastic Autoencoder (KAE), a self-supervised generative model based on the transformer architecture with enhanced performance for molecular design. KAE is formulated based on two novel loss functions: modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haote Li , Yu Shee , Brandon Allen , Federica Maschietto , Victor Batista

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are capable of producing high quality image samples. However, unlike variational autoencoders (VAEs), GANs lack encoders that provide the inverse mapping for the generators, i.e., encode images back to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Paul K. Rubenstein , Yunpeng Li , Dominik Roblek

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet a detailed understanding of how specific perceptual attributes - such as color and shape - are internally represented remains limited. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Guillem Arias , Ariadna Solà , Martí Armengod , Maria Vanrell

Optimal computations under uncertainty require an adequate probabilistic representation about beliefs. Deep generative models, and specifically Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have the potential to meet this demand by building latent…

Constructing powerful generative models for natural images is a challenging task. PixelCNN models capture details and local information in images very well but have limited receptive field. Variational autoencoders with a factorial decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hossein Sadeghi , Evgeny Andriyash , Walter Vinci , Lorenzo Buffoni , Mohammad H. Amin

Given a dataset of images containing different objects with different features such as shape, size, rotation, and x-y position; and a Variational Autoencoder (VAE); creating a disentangled encoding of these features in the hidden space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mohammad Haghir Ebrahimabadi

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

An important task in quantum generative machine learning is to model the probability distribution of measurements of many-body quantum systems. Classical generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Anantha Rao , Dhiraj Madan , Anupama Ray , Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy , M. S. Santhanam

With the recent advances in machine learning for quantum chemistry, it is now possible to predict the chemical properties of compounds and to generate novel molecules. Existing generative models mostly use a string- or graph-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-14 Vitali Nesterov , Mario Wieser , Volker Roth

In this paper, we show that a binary latent space can be explored for compact yet expressive image representations. We model the bi-directional mappings between an image and the corresponding latent binary representation by training an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ze Wang , Jiang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Qiang Qiu

I present a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) trained on collider physics data (specifically boosted $W$ jets), with reconstruction error given by an approximation to the Earth Movers Distance (EMD) between input and output jets. This VAE…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Jack H. Collins

Training model to generate data has increasingly attracted research attention and become important in modern world applications. We propose in this paper a new geometry-based optimization approach to address this problem. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Trung Le , Hung Vu , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

This work proposes a method for using any generator network as the foundation of an Energy-Based Model (EBM). Our formulation posits that observed images are the sum of unobserved latent variables passed through the generator network and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mitch Hill , Erik Nijkamp , Jonathan Mitchell , Bo Pang , Song-Chun Zhu

We learn a latent space for easy capture, consistent interpolation, and efficient reproduction of visual material appearance. When users provide a photo of a stationary natural material captured under flashlight illumination, first it is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Philipp Henzler , Valentin Deschaintre , Niloy J. Mitra , Tobias Ritschel

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have received much attention recently as an end-to-end architecture for text generation with latent variables. In this paper, we investigate several multi-level structures to learn a VAE model to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Dinghan Shen , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yizhe Zhang , Liqun Chen , Xin Wang , Jianfeng Gao , Lawrence Carin

We present an autoencoder that leverages learned representations to better measure similarities in data space. By combining a variational autoencoder with a generative adversarial network we can use learned feature representations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Hugo Larochelle , Ole Winther