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We propose to leverage denoising autoencoder networks as priors to address image restoration problems. We build on the key observation that the output of an optimal denoising autoencoder is a local mean of the true data density, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli , Matthias Zwicker

Molecule generation is to design new molecules with specific chemical properties and further to optimize the desired chemical properties. Following previous work, we encode molecules into continuous vectors in the latent space and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Chaochao Yan , Sheng Wang , Jinyu Yang , Tingyang Xu , Junzhou Huang

Dropout is a regularization technique widely used in training artificial neural networks to mitigate overfitting. It consists of dynamically deactivating subsets of the network during training to promote more robust representations. Despite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-10 Francesco Mori , Francesca Mignacco

Autoencoders have been widely used for dimensional reduction and feature extraction. Various types of autoencoders have been proposed by introducing regularization terms. Most of these regularizations improve representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yuzhu Guo , Kang Pan , Simeng Li , Zongchang Han , Kexin Wang , Li Li

Variational Graph Auto-Encoders (VGAEs) have been widely used to solve the node clustering task. However, the state-of-the-art methods have numerous challenges. First, existing VGAEs do not account for the discrepancy between the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa , Riadh Ksantini

Dropout as a common regularizer to prevent overfitting in deep neural networks has been less effective in convolutional layers than in fully connected layers. This is because Dropout drops features randomly, without considering local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Liyan Chen , Philippos Mordohai , Sergul Aydore

Codebook collapse is a common problem in training deep generative models with discrete representation spaces like Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAEs). We observe that the same problem arises for the alternatively designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Gulcin Baykal , Melih Kandemir , Gozde Unal

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a powerful approach to unsupervised learning. They enable scalable approximate posterior inference in latent-variable models using variational inference (VI). A VAE posits a variational family…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Samarth Sinha , Adji B. Dieng

Convolutional autoencoders are now at the forefront of image compression research. To improve their entropy coding, encoder output is typically analyzed with a second autoencoder to generate per-variable parametrized prior probability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Approximate inference in Bayesian deep networks exhibits a dilemma of how to yield high fidelity posterior approximations while maintaining computational efficiency and scalability. We tackle this challenge by introducing a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Son Nguyen , Duong Nguyen , Khai Nguyen , Khoat Than , Hung Bui , Nhat Ho

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

Robots rely on visual relocalization to estimate their pose from camera images when they lose track. One of the challenges in visual relocalization is repetitive structures in the operation environment of the robot. This calls for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Fereidoon Zangeneh , Leonard Bruns , Amit Dekel , Alessandro Pieropan , Patric Jensfelt

Disentangled visual representations have largely been studied with generative models such as Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). While prior work has focused on generative methods for disentangled representation learning, these approaches do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Andrea Burns , Aaron Sarna , Dilip Krishnan , Aaron Maschinot

In the context of linear inverse problems, we propose and study a general iterative regularization method allowing to consider large classes of regularizers and data-fit terms. The algorithm we propose is based on a primal-dual diagonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Guillaume Garrigos , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Variants dropout methods have been designed for the fully-connected layer, convolutional layer and recurrent layer in neural networks, and shown to be effective to avoid overfitting. As an appealing alternative to recurrent and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Lin Zehui , Pengfei Liu , Luyao Huang , Junkun Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

We propose a generative model termed Deciphering Autoencoders. In this model, we assign a unique random dropout pattern to each data point in the training dataset and then train an autoencoder to reconstruct the corresponding data point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shunta Maeda

Image reconstruction in X-ray tomography is an ill-posed inverse problem, particularly with limited available data. Regularization is thus essential, but its effectiveness hinges on the choice of a regularization parameter that balances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Chuyang Wu , Samuli Siltanen

There has been an increasing interest in utilizing machine learning methods in inverse problems and imaging. Most of the work has, however, concentrated on image reconstruction problems, and the number of studies regarding the full solution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Teemu Sahlström , Tanja Tarvainen

Mode collapse remains a fundamental challenge in training generative adversarial networks (GANs). While existing works have primarily focused on inter-mode collapse, such as mode dropping, intra-mode collapse-where many latent variables map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kuan-Yu Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Tie Liu

Dropout as regularization has been used extensively to prevent overfitting for training neural networks. During training, units and their connections are randomly dropped, which could be considered as sampling many different submodels from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zhaoyuan Yang , Arpit Jain