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There are many problems in physics, biology, and other natural sciences in which symbolic regression can provide valuable insights and discover new laws of nature. A widespread Deep Neural Networks do not provide interpretable solutions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sergei Popov , Mikhail Lazarev , Vladislav Belavin , Denis Derkach , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

In generative modeling, tokenization simplifies complex data into compact, structured representations, creating a more efficient, learnable space. For high-dimensional visual data, it reduces redundancy and emphasizes key features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Long Zhao , Sanghyun Woo , Ziyu Wan , Yandong Li , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Hartwig Adam , Xuhui Jia , Ting Liu

Graph self-supervised learning has gained significant attention recently. However, many existing approaches heavily depend on perturbations, and inappropriate perturbations may corrupt the graph's inherent information. The Vector Quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Long Zeng , Jianxiang Yu , Jiapeng Zhu , Qingsong Zhong , Xiang Li

Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAE)[1] provide an unsupervised model for learning discrete representations by combining vector quantization and autoencoders. In this paper, we study the use of VQ-VAE for representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-05 Hanwei Wu , Markus Flierl

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew Kiruluta

Vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are central to models that rely on high reconstruction fidelity, from neural compression to generative pipelines. Hierarchical extensions, such as VQ-VAE2, are often credited with superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shirin Reyhanian , Laurenz Wiskott

Paradoxically, a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) could be pushed in two opposite directions, utilizing powerful decoder model for generating realistic images but collapsing the learned representation, or increasing regularization coefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Trung Ngo , Najwa Laabid , Ville Hautamäki , Merja Heinäniemi

In this thesis, we explore the use of deep neural networks for generation of natural language. Specifically, we implement two sequence-to-sequence neural variational models - variational autoencoders (VAE) and variational encoder-decoders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Hareesh Bahuleyan

Although autoregressive models have achieved promising results on image generation, their unidirectional generation process prevents the resultant images from fully reflecting global contexts. To address the issue, we propose an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Doyup Lee , Chiheon Kim , Saehoon Kim , Minsu Cho , Wook-Shin Han

Conditional Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) are gathering significant attention as an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) tool. The codes in the latent space provide a theoretically sound way to produce counterfactuals, i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nicolas Vercheval , Aleksandra Pizurica

Generative models of graphs are well-known, but many existing models are limited in scalability and expressivity. We present a novel sequential graphical variational autoencoder operating directly on graphical representations of data. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Bowen Jing , Ethan A. Chi , Jillian Tang

Latent generative models have emerged as a leading approach for high-quality image synthesis. These models rely on an autoencoder to compress images into a latent space, followed by a generative model to learn the latent distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theodoros Kouzelis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Humans are able to create rich representations of their external reality. Their internal representations allow for cross-modality inference, where available perceptions can induce the perceptual experience of missing input modalities. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Miguel Vasco , Francisco S. Melo , Ana Paiva

Recommender systems are indispensable for helping users navigate the immense item catalogs of modern online platforms. Recently, generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, unifying the conventional retrieve-and-rank…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Dengzhao Fang , Jingtong Gao , Chengcheng Zhu , Yu Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Yi Chang

In this paper, we propose Multiresolution Equivariant Graph Variational Autoencoders (MGVAE), the first hierarchical generative model to learn and generate graphs in a multiresolution and equivariant manner. At each resolution level, MGVAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Truong Son Hy , Risi Kondor

Despite advances in deep probabilistic models, learning discrete latent representations remains challenging. This work introduces a novel method to improve inference in discrete Variational Autoencoders by reframing the inference problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 María Martínez-García , Grace Villacrés , David Mitchell , Pablo M. Olmos

Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) has been widely adopted in text generation. Among many variants, recurrent VAE learns token-wise latent variables with each conditioned on the preceding ones, which captures sequential variability better in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jinyi Hu , Xiaoyuan Yi , Wenhao Li , Maosong Sun , Xing Xie

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

While hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) have achieved great density estimation on image modeling tasks, samples from their prior tend to look less convincing than models with similar log-likelihood. We attribute this to learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Eric Luhman , Troy Luhman

Approximating distributions over complicated manifolds, such as natural images, are conceptually attractive. The deep latent variable model, trained using variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, is now a key technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang