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In this paper, we are interested in unsupervised (unknown noise) audio-visual speech enhancement based on variational autoencoders (VAEs), where the probability distribution of clean speech spectra is simulated using an encoder-decoder…

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Hybrid recommendations have recently attracted a lot of attention where user features are utilized as auxiliary information to address the sparsity problem caused by insufficient user-item interactions. However, extracted user features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yaochen Zhu , Zhenzhong Chen

We propose a novel VAE-based deep auto-encoder model that can learn disentangled latent representations in a fully unsupervised manner, endowed with the ability to identify all meaningful sources of variation and their cardinality. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Minyoung Kim , Yuting Wang , Pritish Sahu , Vladimir Pavlovic

An effective approach for voice conversion (VC) is to disentangle linguistic content from other components in the speech signal. The effectiveness of variational autoencoder (VAE) based VC (VAE-VC), for instance, strongly relies on this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Wen-Chin Huang , Hao Luo , Hsin-Te Hwang , Chen-Chou Lo , Yu-Huai Peng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Generating conversational gestures from speech audio is challenging due to the inherent one-to-many mapping between audio and body motions. Conventional CNNs/RNNs assume one-to-one mapping, and thus tend to predict the average of all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jing Li , Di Kang , Wenjie Pei , Xuefei Zhe , Ying Zhang , Zhenyu He , Linchao Bao

Deep latent variable models have been shown to facilitate the response generation for open-domain dialog systems. However, these latent variables are highly randomized, leading to uncontrollable generated responses. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Xiaoyu Shen , Hui Su , Yanran Li , Wenjie Li , Shuzi Niu , Yang Zhao , Akiko Aizawa , Guoping Long

The generation of personalized dialogue is vital to natural and human-like conversation. Typically, personalized dialogue generation models involve conditioning the generated response on the dialogue history and a representation of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jing Yang Lee , Kong Aik Lee , Woon Seng Gan

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Autonomous driving faces critical challenges in rare long-tail events and complex multi-agent interactions, which are scarce in real-world data yet essential for robust safety validation. This paper presents a high-fidelity scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuhang Wang , Heye Huang , Zhenhua Xu , Kailai Sun , Baoshen Guo , Jinhua Zhao

We would like to learn a representation of the data which decomposes an observation into factors of variation which we can independently control. Specifically, we want to use minimal supervision to learn a latent representation that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Diane Bouchacourt , Ryota Tomioka , Sebastian Nowozin

The volume of remote sensing data is experiencing rapid growth, primarily due to the plethora of space and air platforms equipped with an array of sensors. Due to limited hardware and battery constraints the data is transmitted back to…

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We present a Split Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (SVQ-VAE) architecture using a split vector quantizer for NTTS, as an enhancement to the well-known Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Marek Strong , Jonas Rohnke , Antonio Bonafonte , Mateusz Łajszczak , Trevor Wood

Linking neural representations to linguistic factors is crucial in order to build and analyze NLP models interpretable by humans. Among these factors, syntactic roles (e.g. subjects, direct objects,$\dots$) and their realizations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ghazi Felhi , Joseph Le Roux , Djamé Seddah

The natural language generation domain has witnessed great success thanks to Transformer models. Although they have achieved state-of-the-art generative quality, they often neglect generative diversity. Prior attempts to tackle this issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yueen Ma , Dafeng Chi , Jingjing Li , Kai Song , Yuzheng Zhuang , Irwin King

Multimodal data are prevalent across various domains, and learning robust representations of such data is paramount to enhancing generation quality and downstream task performance. To handle heterogeneity and interconnections among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yijie Zhang , Yiyang Shen , Weiran Wang

We present an unsupervised method to obtain disentangled representations of sentences that single out semantic content. Using modified Transformers as building blocks, we train a Variational Autoencoder to translate the sentence to a fixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ghazi Felhi , Joseph Le Roux , Djamé Seddah

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a generative model with continuous latent variables where a pair of probabilistic encoder (bottom-up) and decoder (top-down) is jointly learned by stochastic gradient variational Bayes. We first…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-19 Suwon Suh , Seungjin Choi

Deep generative models have been enjoying success in modeling continuous data. However it remains challenging to capture the representations for discrete structures with formal grammars and semantics, e.g., computer programs and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hanjun Dai , Yingtao Tian , Bo Dai , Steven Skiena , Le Song

Pedestrian trajectory forecasting is a fundamental task in multiple utility areas, such as self-driving, autonomous robots, and surveillance systems. The future trajectory forecasting is multi-modal, influenced by physical interaction with…

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