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Recently, audio-visual speech enhancement has been tackled in the unsupervised settings based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs), where during training only clean data is used to train a generative model for speech, which at test time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Mostafa Sadeghi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) typically encode images into a compact latent space, reducing computational cost but introducing an optimization dilemma: a higher-dimensional latent space improves reconstruction fidelity but often hampers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xunzhi Xiang , Xingye Tian , Guiyu Zhang , Yabo Chen , Shaofeng Zhang , Xuebo Wang , Xin Tao , Qi Fan

Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, decoding a random latent vector from the prior usually does not produce meaningful data, at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alejandro Ascarate , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

Purpose: Handling heterogeneous and mixed data types has become increasingly critical with the exponential growth in real-world databases. While deep generative models attempt to merge diverse data views into a common latent space, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Alejandro Guerrero-López , Carlos Sevilla-Salcedo , Vanessa Gómez-Verdejo , Pablo M. Olmos

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that can be used for learning the distribution of complex data. VAEs have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mostafa Sadeghi , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-PIneda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

We propose a family of novel hierarchical Bayesian deep auto-encoder models capable of identifying disentangled factors of variability in data. While many recent attempts at factor disentanglement have focused on sophisticated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Minyoung Kim , Yuting Wang , Pritish Sahu , Vladimir Pavlovic

The Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) is one of the most used unsupervised machine learning models. But although the default choice of a Gaussian distribution for both the prior and posterior represents a mathematically convenient distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-28 Tim R. Davidson , Luca Falorsi , Nicola De Cao , Thomas Kipf , Jakub M. Tomczak

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

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are a popular generative model used to approximate distributions. The encoder part of the VAE is used in amortized learning of latent variables, producing a latent representation for data samples. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-12 Daniel G. Edelberg , Roy R. Lederman

Learning a robust video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is essential for reducing video redundancy and facilitating efficient video generation. Directly applying image VAEs to individual frames in isolation can result in temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yazhou Xing , Yang Fei , Yingqing He , Jingye Chen , Jiaxin Xie , Xiaowei Chi , Qifeng Chen

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are capable of learning latent representations for high dimensional data. However, due to the i.i.d. assumption, VAEs only optimize the singleton variational distributions and fail to account for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Tony Jebara , Nicholas Ruozzi

We introduce an improved variational autoencoder (VAE) for text modeling with topic information explicitly modeled as a Dirichlet latent variable. By providing the proposed model topic awareness, it is more superior at reconstructing input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yijun Xiao , Tiancheng Zhao , William Yang Wang

We propose a theoretical approach towards the training numerical stability of Variational AutoEncoders (VAE). Our work is motivated by recent studies empowering VAEs to reach state of the art generative results on complex image datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 David Dehaene , Rémy Brossard

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been used for unsupervised disentanglement learning of complex density distributions. Numerous variants exist to encourage disentanglement in latent space while improving reconstruction.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Kenneth Ezukwoke , Anis Hoayek , Mireille Batton-Hubert , Xavier Boucher

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is an established generative model but is notorious for its blurriness. In this work, we investigate the blurry output problem of VAE and resolve it, exploiting the variance of Gaussian decoder and $\beta$ of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Seunghwan Kim , Seungkyu Lee

Distributed learning and Edge AI necessitate efficient data processing, low-latency communication, decentralized model training, and stringent data privacy to facilitate real-time intelligence on edge devices while reducing dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lucas Heublein , Simon Kocher , Tobias Feigl , Alexander Rügamer , Christopher Mutschler , Felix Ott

This paper introduces a modified variational autoencoder (VAEs) that contains an additional neural network branch. The resulting branched VAE (BVAE) contributes a classification component based on the class labels to the total loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ahmed Salah , David Yevick

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

This paper proposes a new model for music prediction based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In this work, VAEs are used in a novel way in order to address two different problems: music representation into the latent space, and using this…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Rivero , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Alejandro Pazos

This study advances the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework by addressing challenges in Independent Component Analysis (ICA) under both determined and underdetermined conditions, focusing on enhancing the independence and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Yuan-Hao Wei , Yan-Jie Sun