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This study presents a novel approach for intelligent user interaction interface generation and optimization, grounded in the variational autoencoder (VAE) model. With the rapid advancement of intelligent technologies, traditional interface…

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Normalizing flows, autoregressive models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep energy-based models are among competing likelihood-based frameworks for deep generative learning. Among them, VAEs have the advantage of fast and tractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-11 Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

Prediction of future states of the environment and interacting agents is a key competence required for autonomous agents to operate successfully in the real world. Prior work for structured sequence prediction based on latent variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Michael Hanselmann , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

VAEs (Variational AutoEncoders) have proved to be powerful in the context of density modeling and have been used in a variety of contexts for creative purposes. In many settings, the data we model possesses continuous attributes that we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Frank Nielsen , François Pachet

Density estimation, compression and data generation are crucial tasks in artificial intelligence. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) constitute a single framework to achieve these goals. Here, we present a novel class of generative models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Jakub M. Tomczak

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

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that are widely used for a number of downstream tasks. While it has been demonstrated that VAE training can suffer from a number of pathologies, existing literature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-17 Yaniv Yacoby , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

Synthesizing realistic and diverse indoor 3D scene layouts in a controllable fashion opens up applications in simulated navigation and virtual reality. As concise and robust representations of a scene, scene graphs have proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Mengqi Wang , Diego Martin Arroyo , Fabian Manhardt , Nico Messikomer , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

This work presents a mapless global navigation approach for outdoor applications. It combines the exploratory capacity of conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs) to generate trajectories and the semantic segmentation capabilities of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Gonzalo Olguin , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

In level co-creation an AI and human work together to create a video game level. One open challenge in level co-creation is how to empower human users to ensure particular qualities of the final level, such as challenge. There has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Andrew Hoyt , Matthew Guzdial , Yalini Kumar , Gillian Smith , Mark O. Riedl

The ability to accurately model random fields plays a critical role in science and engineering for problems involving uncertain, spatially-varying quantities such as heterogeneous material properties and turbulent flows. Deep generative…

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are widely used for dimensionality reduction of large-scale tabular and image datasets, under the assumption of independence between data observations. In practice, however, datasets are often correlated, with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Giora Simchoni , Saharon Rosset

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

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) constitute a crucial component of neural symbolic music generation, among which some works have yielded outstanding results and attracted considerable attention. Nevertheless, previous VAEs still encounter…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhiwei Lin , Jun Chen , Boshi Tang , Binzhu Sha , Jing Yang , Yaolong Ju , Fan Fan , Shiyin Kang , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Modelling the complexity and diversity of human activity scheduling behaviour is inherently challenging. We demonstrate a deep conditional-generative machine learning approach for the modelling of realistic activity schedules depending on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Fred Shone , Tim Hillel

We propose a novel deep clustering method that integrates Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) into the Expectation-Maximization (EM) framework. Our approach models the probability distribution of each cluster with a VAE and alternates between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Michael Adipoetra , Ségolène Martin

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

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

This research attempts to construct a network that can convert online and offline handwritten characters to each other. The proposed network consists of two Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) with a shared latent space. The VAEs are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Taichi Sumi , Brian Kenji Iwana , Hideaki Hayashi , Seiichi Uchida

Recent work on generative modeling of text has found that variational auto-encoders (VAE) incorporating LSTM decoders perform worse than simpler LSTM language models (Bowman et al., 2015). This negative result is so far poorly understood,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick