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There have been many recent advances in representation learning; however, unsupervised representation learning can still struggle with model identification issues related to rotations of the latent space. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Travers Rhodes , Daniel D. Lee

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful tools for learning latent representations of data used in a wide range of applications. In practice, VAEs usually require multiple training rounds to choose the amount of information the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Juhan Bae , Michael R. Zhang , Michael Ruan , Eric Wang , So Hasegawa , Jimmy Ba , Roger Grosse

Approximating distributions over complicated manifolds, such as natural images, are conceptually attractive. The deep latent variable model, trained using variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, is now a key technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

Learning from an imbalanced distribution presents a major challenge in predictive modeling, as it generally leads to a reduction in the performance of standard algorithms. Various approaches exist to address this issue, but many of them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Samuel Stocksieker , Denys Pommeret , Arthur Charpentier

In recent years, there is an increasing interests in reconstruction based generative models for image One-Class Novelty Detection, most of which only focus on image-level information. While in this paper, we further exploit the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ge Zhang , Wangzhe Du

In this work we present an unsupervised approach to summarize sentences in abstractive way using Variational Autoencoder (VAE). VAE are known to learn a semantically rich latent variable, representing high dimensional input. VAEs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Raphael Schumann

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

Although variational autoencoders (VAEs) represent a widely influential deep generative model, many aspects of the underlying energy function remain poorly understood. In particular, it is commonly believed that Gaussian encoder/decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Bin Dai , David Wipf

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) encoders play a critical role in modern generative models, yet their computational cost often motivates the use of knowledge distillation or quantification to obtain compact alternatives. Existing studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiaming Chu , Tao Wang , Lei Jin

Semi-Supervised Variational Autoencoders (SSVAEs) are widely used models for data efficient learning. In this paper, we question the adequacy of the standard design of sequence SSVAEs for the task of text classification as we exhibit two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ghazi Felhi , Joseph Le Roux , Djamé Seddah

A trade-off exists between reconstruction quality and the prior regularisation in the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) loss that Variational Autoencoder (VAE) models use for learning. There are few satisfactory approaches to deal with a balance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shuyu Lin , Stephen Roberts , Niki Trigoni , Ronald Clark

Deep learning (DL) methods where interpretability is intrinsically considered as part of the model are required to better understand the relationship of clinical and imaging-based attributes with DL outcomes, thus facilitating their use in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Irem Cetin , Maialen Stephens , Oscar Camara , Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester

Multimodal variational autoencoders (VAEs) aim to capture shared latent representations by integrating information from different data modalities. A significant challenge is accurately inferring representations from any subset of modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuta Oshima , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that merge elements from statistics and information theory with the flexibility offered by deep neural networks to efficiently solve the generation problem for high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 A. Asperti , D. Evangelista , E. Loli Piccolomini

A big mystery in deep learning continues to be the ability of methods to generalize when the number of model parameters is larger than the number of training examples. In this work, we take a step towards a better understanding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Romain Cosentino , Randall Balestriero , Richard Baraniuk , Behnaam Aazhang

In recent years, the field of machine learning has made phenomenal progress in the pursuit of simulating real-world data generation processes. One notable example of such success is the variational autoencoder (VAE). In this work, with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-30 Hwan Goh , Sheroze Sheriffdeen , Jonathan Wittmer , Tan Bui-Thanh

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jason Chou

While high-dimensional embedding vectors are being increasingly employed in various tasks like Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Recommendation Systems, popular dimensionality reduction (DR) methods such as PCA and UMAP have rarely been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Han Zhang , Dongfang Zhao

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) often suffer from posterior collapse, which is a phenomenon in which the learned latent space becomes uninformative. This is often related to the hyperparameter resembling the data variance. It can be shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yuhta Takida , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

We propose to utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) for data-driven channel estimation. The underlying true and unknown channel distribution is modeled by the VAE as a conditional Gaussian distribution in a novel way, parameterized by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Michael Baur , Benedikt Fesl , Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick