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We propose a novel VAE-based deep auto-encoder model that can learn disentangled latent representations in a fully unsupervised manner, endowed with the ability to identify all meaningful sources of variation and their cardinality. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Minyoung Kim , Yuting Wang , Pritish Sahu , Vladimir Pavlovic

Variational Autoencoder is a scalable method for learning latent variable models of complex data. It employs a clear objective that can be easily optimized. However, it does not explicitly measure the quality of learned representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Andriy Serdega , Dae-Shik Kim

We investigate the potential of adaptive blind equalizers based on variational inference for carrier recovery in optical communications. These equalizers are based on a low-complexity approximation of maximum likelihood channel estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Vincent Lauinger , Fred Buchali , Laurent Schmalen

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) trained on large language model activations output thousands of features that enable mapping to human-interpretable concepts. The current practice for analyzing these features primarily relies on inspecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wilson E. Marcílio-Jr , Danilo M. Eler

There has been a growing interest in recent years in modelling multiple modalities (or views) of data to for example, understand the relationship between modalities or to generate missing data. Multi-view autoencoders have gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ana Lawry Aguila , Andre Altmann

In this paper, we propose a novel model called Learnable VAE (L-VAE), which learns a disentangled representation together with the hyperparameters of the cost function. L-VAE can be considered as an extension of \b{eta}-VAE, wherein the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hazal Mogultay Ozcan , Sinan Kalkan , Fatos T. Yarman-Vural

The ability of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to learn disentangled representations has made them popular for practical applications. However, their behaviour is not yet fully understood. For example, the questions of when they can provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Lisa Bonheme , Marek Grzes

This paper proposes a new model for music prediction based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In this work, VAEs are used in a novel way in order to address two different problems: music representation into the latent space, and using this…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Rivero , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Alejandro Pazos

Cross-modal representation learning allows to integrate information from different modalities into one representation. At the same time, research on generative models tends to focus on the visual domain with less emphasis on other domains,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

An ability to model a generative process and learn a latent representation for speech in an unsupervised fashion will be crucial to process vast quantities of unlabelled speech data. Recently, deep probabilistic generative models such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , James Glass

Electron, optical, and scanning probe microscopy methods are generating ever increasing volume of image data containing information on atomic and mesoscale structures and functionalities. This necessitates the development of the machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mani Valleti , Yongtao Liu , Sergei Kalinin

Variational autoencoder (VAE) estimates the posterior parameters (mean and variance) of latent variables corresponding to each input data. While it is used for many tasks, the transparency of the model is still an underlying issue. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Akira Nakagawa , Keizo Kato , Taiji Suzuki

We introduce a simple recurrent variational auto-encoder architecture that significantly improves image modeling. The system represents the state-of-the-art in latent variable models for both the ImageNet and Omniglot datasets. We show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-02 Karol Gregor , Frederic Besse , Danilo Jimenez Rezende , Ivo Danihelka , Daan Wierstra

Although saliency maps can highlight important regions to explain the reasoning behind image classification in artificial intelligence (AI), the meaning of these regions is left to the user's interpretation. In contrast, conceptbased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Michihiro Kuroki , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Interpreting computations in the visual cortex as learning and inference in a generative model of the environment has received wide support both in neuroscience and cognitive science. However, hierarchical computations, a hallmark of visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-02 Ferenc Csikor , Balázs Meszéna , Bence Szabó , Gergő Orbán

Variational autoencoders (VAE) are directed generative models that learn factorial latent variables. As noted by Burda et al. (2015), these models exhibit the problem of factor over-pruning where a significant number of stochastic factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Serena Yeung , Anitha Kannan , Yann Dauphin , Li Fei-Fei

In modern machine learning, the trend of harnessing self-supervised learning to derive high-quality representations without label dependency has garnered significant attention. However, the absence of label information, coupled with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yan Cui , Shuhong Liu , Liuzhuozheng Li , Zhiyuan Yuan

We introduce an information-theoretic framework that uses variational autoencoders (VAEs) to extract compact, physically interpretable manifolds from high-dimensional flow-field data. To this end, the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhiyuan Wang , Iacopo Tirelli , Stefano Discetti , Andrea Ianiro

Deep learning models are complex due to their size, structure, and inherent randomness in training procedures. Additional complexity arises from the selection of datasets and inductive biases. Addressing these challenges for explainability,…

This paper addresses the challenges of detecting anomalies in cellular networks in an interpretable way and proposes a new approach using variational autoencoders (VAEs) that learn interpretable representations of the latent space for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Amandeep Singh , Michael Weber , Markus Lange-Hegermann