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Modern generative models are roughly divided into two main categories: (1) models that can produce high-quality random samples, but cannot estimate the exact density of new data points and (2) those that provide exact density estimation, at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Omri Ben-Dov , Pravir Singh Gupta , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Michael J. Black , Partha Ghosh

Diffusion models offer unprecedented image generation power given just a text prompt. While emerging approaches for controlling diffusion models have enabled users to specify the desired spatial layouts of the generated content, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yunxiang Zhang , Nan Wu , Connor Z. Lin , Gordon Wetzstein , Qi Sun

The ability to accurately model random fields plays a critical role in science and engineering for problems involving uncertain, spatially-varying quantities such as heterogeneous material properties and turbulent flows. Deep generative…

Generative classifiers offer potential advantages over their discriminative counterparts, namely in the areas of data efficiency, robustness to data shift and adversarial examples, and zero-shot learning (Ng and Jordan,2002; Yogatama et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xiaoan Ding , Kevin Gimpel

We show that the sum of the implicit generator log-density $\log p_g$ of a GAN with the logit score of the discriminator defines an energy function which yields the true data density when the generator is imperfect but the discriminator is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Tong Che , Ruixiang Zhang , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Hugo Larochelle , Liam Paull , Yuan Cao , Yoshua Bengio

This paper introduces novel deep dynamical models designed to represent continuous-time sequences. Our approach employs a neural emission model to generate each data point in the time series through a non-linear transformation of a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Sheng Cheng , Deqian Kong , Jianwen Xie , Kookjin Lee , Ying Nian Wu , Yezhou Yang

Quantifying biomechanical properties of the human vasculature could deepen our understanding of cardiovascular diseases. Standard nonlinear regression in constitutive modeling requires considerable high-quality data and an explicit form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Minglang Yin , Zongren Zou , Enrui Zhang , Cristina Cavinato , Jay D. Humphrey , George Em Karniadakis

Sparsity is a desirable attribute. It can lead to more efficient and more effective representations compared to the dense model. Meanwhile, learning sparse latent representations has been a challenging problem in the field of computer…

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Web page saliency prediction is a challenge problem in image transformation and computer vision. In this paper, we propose a new model combined with web page outline information to prediction people's interest region in web page. For each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yu Li , Ya Zhang

Scenario-based probabilistic forecasts have become vital for decision-makers in handling intermittent renewable energies. This paper presents a recent promising deep learning generative approach called denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Esteban Hernandez Capel , Jonathan Dumas

Predictive uncertainty quantification is crucial for reliable decision-making in various applied domains. Bayesian neural networks offer a powerful framework for this task. However, defining meaningful priors and ensuring computational…

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Generative models have achieved remarkable progress with the emergence of flow matching (FM). It has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and attracted significant attention as a simulation-free flow-based framework capable of…

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We address the problem of compressed sensing using a deep generative prior model and consider both linear and learned nonlinear sensing mechanisms, where the nonlinear one involves either a fully connected neural network or a convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Vinayak Killedar , Praveen Kumar Pokala , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We present a generative model of images based on layering, in which image layers are individually generated, then composited from front to back. We are thus able to factor the appearance of an image into the appearance of individual objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Jonathan Huang , Kevin Murphy

This paper proposes a latent space energy-based prior model for semi-supervised learning. The model stands on a generator network that maps a latent vector to the observed example. The energy term of the prior model couples the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Pang , Erik Nijkamp , Jiali Cui , Tian Han , Ying Nian Wu

In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jaeyoung Yoo , Hojun Lee , Nojun Kwak

Computer vision is hard because of a large variability in lighting, shape, and texture; in addition the image signal is non-additive due to occlusion. Generative models promised to account for this variability by accurately modelling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Varun Jampani , Sebastian Nowozin , Matthew Loper , Peter V. Gehler

Most existing saliency models use low-level features or task descriptions when generating attention predictions. However, the link between observer characteristics and gaze patterns is rarely investigated. We present a novel saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Bingqing Yu , James J. Clark

Gaussian state space models have been used for decades as generative models of sequential data. They admit an intuitive probabilistic interpretation, have a simple functional form, and enjoy widespread adoption. We introduce a unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-06 Rahul G. Krishnan , Uri Shalit , David Sontag

Differential graphical models are designed to represent the difference between the conditional dependence structures of two groups, thus are of particular interest for scientific investigation. Motivated by modern applications, this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Sen Na , Mladen Kolar , Oluwasanmi Koyejo