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Principal component analysis, dictionary learning, and auto-encoders are all unsupervised methods for learning representations from a large amount of training data. In all these methods, the higher the dimensions of the input data, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Thomas Chang , Bahareh Tolooshams , Demba Ba

This work investigates three methods for calculating loss for autoencoder-based pretraining of image encoders: The commonly used reconstruction loss, the more recently introduced deep perceptual similarity loss, and a feature prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Image Representation learning via input reconstruction is a common technique in machine learning for generating representations that can be effectively utilized by arbitrary downstream tasks. A well-established approach is using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Raoof HojatJalali , Edmondo Trentin

Recent work on learning multilingual word representations usually relies on the use of word-level alignements (e.g. infered with the help of GIZA++) between translated sentences, in order to align the word embeddings in different languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Stanislas Lauly , Alex Boulanger , Hugo Larochelle

Sparse autoencoders are a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet, their interpretation depends on the inputs, making their isolated study incomplete. Polynomials offer a solution; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis

A fundamental task in data exploration is to extract simplified low dimensional representations that capture intrinsic geometry in data, especially for faithfully visualizing data in two or three dimensions. Common approaches to this task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-30 Andrés F. Duque , Sacha Morin , Guy Wolf , Kevin R. Moon

Representation of data on mixed variables, numerical and categorical types to get suitable feature map is a challenging task as important information lies in a complex non-linear manifold. The feature transformation should be able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Saswata Sahoo , Souradip Chakraborty

Automatically learning features, especially robust features, has attracted much attention in the machine learning community. In this paper, we propose a new method to learn non-linear robust features by taking advantage of the data manifold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yanan Li , Donghui Wang

Manifold models provide low-dimensional representations that are useful for processing and analyzing data in a transformation-invariant way. In this paper, we study the problem of learning smooth pattern transformation manifolds from image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Elif Vural , Pascal Frossard

We propose a nonlinear manifold learning technique based on deep convolutional autoencoders that is appropriate for model order reduction of physical systems in complex geometries. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 John Tencer , Kevin Potter

Latent space geometry provides a rigorous and empirically valuable framework for interacting with the latent variables of deep generative models. This approach reinterprets Euclidean latent spaces as Riemannian through a pull-back metric,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-15 Stas Syrota , Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Søren Hauberg

Neural solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) have great potential to generate fast and accurate physics solutions, yet their practicality is currently limited by their generalizability. PDEs evolve over broad scales and exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Anthony Zhou , Amir Barati Farimani

An important task in image processing and neuroimaging is to extract quantitative information from the acquired images in order to make observations about the presence of disease or markers of development in populations. Having a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Camilo Bermudez , Andrew J. Plassard , Larry T. Davis , Allen T. Newton , Susan M Resnick , Bennett A. Landman

Deep neural network autoencoders are routinely used computationally for model reduction. They allow recognizing the intrinsic dimension of data that lie in a $k$-dimensional subset $K$ of an input Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Matthew D. Kvalheim , Eduardo D. Sontag

Decoder-only transformers lead to a step-change in capability of large language models. However, opinions are mixed as to whether they are really planning or reasoning. A path to making progress in this direction is to study the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Andrew Cohen , Andrey Gromov , Kaiyu Yang , Yuandong Tian

Sparse autoencoders have become a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet salient concepts often span manifolds that current linear methods cannot capture without post hoc analysis. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis , Geraint Wiggins , Jose Oramas

This paper explores the problem of learning transforms for image compression via autoencoders. Usually, the rate-distortion performances of image compression are tuned by varying the quantization step size. In the case of autoen-coders,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Thierry Dumas , Aline Roumy , Christine Guillemot

Decoding approaches are widely used in neuroscience and machine learning to compare stimulus representations across neural systems, such as different brain regions, organisms, and deep learning models. Popular methods include decoding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-08 Johannes Bertram , Luciano Dyballa , T. Anderson Keller , Savik Kinger , Steven W. Zucker

Learning meaningful representations is at the heart of many tasks in the field of modern machine learning. Recently, a lot of methods were introduced that allow learning of image representations without supervision. These representations…

The success of deep neural networks often relies on a large amount of labeled examples, which can be difficult to obtain in many real scenarios. To address this challenge, unsupervised methods are strongly preferred for training neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Liheng Zhang , Guo-Jun Qi , Liqiang Wang , Jiebo Luo