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We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

We combine conditional variational autoencoders (VAE) with adversarial censoring in order to learn invariant representations that are disentangled from nuisance/sensitive variations. In this method, an adversarial network attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Deniz Erdogmus

Vision Transformer (ViT) suffers from data scarcity in semi-supervised learning (SSL). To alleviate this issue, inspired by masked autoencoder (MAE), which is a data-efficient self-supervised learner, we propose Semi-MAE, a pure ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haojie Yu , Kang Zhao , Xiaoming Xu

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to interpret foundation models, but their role as an actionable intervention space remains less understood, especially in vision. We study whether sparse visual features can be used not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gerasimos Chatzoudis , Zhuowei Li , Gemma E. Moran , Hao Wang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In this study, a deep learning based conditional density estimation technique known as conditional variational auto-encoder (CVAE) is used to fill gaps typically observed in particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements in combustion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-12 Shashank Yellapantula

We propose an approach to symbolic regression based on a novel variational autoencoder for generating hierarchical structures, HVAE. It combines simple atomic units with shared weights to recursively encode and decode the individual nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sebastian Mežnar , Sašo Džeroski , Ljupčo Todorovski

Deep generative models applied to audio have improved by a large margin the state-of-the-art in many speech and music related tasks. However, as raw waveform modelling remains an inherently difficult task, audio generative models are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Antoine Caillon , Philippe Esling

Disentangled representation learning aims to represent the underlying generative factors of a dataset in a latent representation independently of one another. In our work, we propose a discrete variational autoencoder (VAE) based model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Gulcin Baykal , Melih Kandemir , Gozde Unal

Existing video Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) generally overlook the similarity between frame contents, leading to redundant latent modeling. In this paper, we propose decoupled VAE (DeCo-VAE) to achieve compact latent representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiangchen Yin , Jiahui Yuan , Zhangchi Hu , Wenzhang Sun , Jie Chen , Xiaozhen Qiao , Hao Li , Xiaoyan Sun

Deep metric learning has been demonstrated to be highly effective in learning semantic representation and encoding information that can be used to measure data similarity, by relying on the embedding learned from metric learning. At the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Haque Ishfaq , Assaf Hoogi , Daniel Rubin

As in many fields of medical research, survival analysis has witnessed a growing interest in the application of deep learning techniques to model complex, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, incomplete, and censored medical data. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Patricia A. Apellániz , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

We introduce the concept of a Modular Autoencoder (MAE), capable of learning a set of diverse but complementary representations from unlabelled data, that can later be used for supervised tasks. The learning of the representations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Henry W J Reeve , Gavin Brown

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

Deep generative models have demonstrated successful applications in learning non-linear data distributions through a number of latent variables and these models use a nonlinear function (generator) to map latent samples into the data space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

Multiple modalities often co-occur when describing natural phenomena. Learning a joint representation of these modalities should yield deeper and more useful representations. Previous generative approaches to multi-modal input either do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Mike Wu , Noah Goodman

We investigate the problem of producing diverse solutions to an image super-resolution problem. From a probabilistic perspective, this can be done by sampling from the posterior distribution of an inverse problem, which requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jean Prost , Antoine Houdard , Andrés Almansa , Nicolas Papadakis

In this paper we propose Structuring AutoEncoders (SAE). SAEs are neural networks which learn a low dimensional representation of data which are additionally enriched with a desired structure in this low dimensional space. While traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Marco Rudolph , Bastian Wandt , Bodo Rosenhahn

Group-equivariant neural networks have emerged as a data-efficient approach to solve classification and regression tasks, while respecting the relevant symmetries of the data. However, little work has been done to extend this paradigm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Gian Marco Visani , Michael N. Pun , Arman Angaji , Armita Nourmohammad

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models for learning latent representations. Standard VAEs generate dispersed and unstructured latent spaces by utilizing all dimensions, which limits their interpretability, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Farshad Sangari Abiz , Reshad Hosseini , Babak N. Araabi

Objects are composed of a set of geometrically organized parts. We introduce an unsupervised capsule autoencoder (SCAE), which explicitly uses geometric relationships between parts to reason about objects. Since these relationships do not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Adam R. Kosiorek , Sara Sabour , Yee Whye Teh , Geoffrey E. Hinton