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Variational autoencoders (VAEs) face a notorious problem wherein the variational posterior often aligns closely with the prior, a phenomenon known as posterior collapse, which hinders the quality of representation learning. To mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-25 Yuma Ichikawa , Koji Hukushima

We propose a MultiScale AutoEncoder(MSAE) based extreme image compression framework to offer visually pleasing reconstruction at a very low bitrate. Our method leverages the "priors" at different resolution scale to improve the compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Chao Huang , Haojie Liu , Tong Chen , Qiu Shen , Zhan Ma

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are known to generate blurry and inconsistent samples. One reason for this is the "prior hole" problem. A prior hole refers to regions that have high probability under the VAE's prior but low probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Debottam Dutta , Chaitanya Amballa , Zhongweiyang Xu , Yu-Lin Wei , Romit Roy Choudhury

Deep image prior (DIP) is a recently proposed technique for solving imaging inverse problems by fitting the reconstructed images to the output of an untrained convolutional neural network. Unlike pretrained feedforward neural networks, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kevin Zhang , Mingyang Xie , Maharshi Gor , Yi-Ting Chen , Yvonne Zhou , Christopher A. Metzler

In this paper, we describe a novel unsupervised learning scheme for accelerating the solution of a family of mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. Distinct substantially from existing learning-to-optimize methods, our proposal seeks to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Shiyuan Qu , Fenglian Dong , Zhiwei Wei , Chao Shang

A pre-trained unconditional diffusion model, combined with posterior sampling or maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation techniques, can solve arbitrary inverse problems without task-specific training or fine-tuning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

The estimation of the covariance matrix is an initial step in many multivariate statistical methods such as principal components analysis and factor analysis, but in many practical applications the dimensionality of the sample space is…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-06-12 Søren Feodor Nielsen , Jon Sporring

Despite their ubiquity, variational autoencoders (VAEs) inherently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which latent variables are effectively ignored. This failure arises because explicit prior imposition drives optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hazhir Aliahmadi , Irina Babayan , Greg van Anders

In recent years Variation Autoencoders have become one of the most popular unsupervised learning of complicated distributions.Variational Autoencoder (VAE) provides more efficient reconstructive performance over a traditional autoencoder.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Gautam Ramachandra

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful generative model that can estimate the probability of a data point by using latent variables. In the VAE, the posterior of the latent variable given the data point is regularized by the prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-30 Hiroshi Takahashi , Tomoharu Iwata , Yuki Yamanaka , Masanori Yamada , Satoshi Yagi

Structural Health Monitoring of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) is critical for ensuring operational safety and efficiency. However, identifying damage in components like mooring systems from limited sensor data poses a challenging…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ana Fernandez-Navamuel , Martin Alberto Diaz Viera , Matteo Croci

This paper introduces a novel framework for image and video demoir\'eing by integrating Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation with advanced deep learning techniques. Demoir\'eing addresses inherently nonlinear degradation processes, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liangyan Li , Yimo Ning , Kevin Le , Wei Dong , Yunzhe Li , Jun Chen , Xiaohong Liu

In ill-posed imaging inverse problems, there can exist many hypotheses that fit both the observed measurements and prior knowledge of the true image. Rather than returning just one hypothesis of that image, posterior samplers aim to explore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Matthew C. Bendel , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Motivated by image recovery in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we propose a new approach to solving linear inverse problems based on iteratively calling a deep neural-network, sometimes referred to as plug-and-play recovery. Our approach…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Subrata Sarkar , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Primal-dual interior-point methods solve constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances with speed and robustness. Their solutions are also efficiently differentiable with respect to the problem data through the implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jon Arrizabalaga , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

The Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently demonstrated effectiveness in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for analyzing natural images. By reconstructing complete images from partially masked inputs, the ViT encoder gathers contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Badhan Kumar Das , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

Deep Learning based methods have emerged as the indisputable leaders for virtually all image restoration tasks. Especially in the domain of microscopy images, various content-aware image restoration (CARE) approaches are now used to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mangal Prakash , Alexander Krull , Florian Jug

Autoencoders have been widely used for dimensional reduction and feature extraction. Various types of autoencoders have been proposed by introducing regularization terms. Most of these regularizations improve representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yuzhu Guo , Kang Pan , Simeng Li , Zongchang Han , Kexin Wang , Li Li

In this paper, we propose novel algorithms for inferring the Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) solution of discrete pairwise random field models under multiple constraints. We show how this constrained discrete optimization problem can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Yongsub Lim , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli

Strong gravitational lensing can reveal the influence of dark-matter substructure in galaxies, but analyzing these effects from noisy, low-resolution images poses a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a masked autoencoder (MAE)…