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In this study, we propose the Affine Variational Autoencoder (AVAE), a variant of Variational Autoencoder (VAE) designed to improve robustness by overcoming the inability of VAEs to generalize to distributional shifts in the form of affine…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Rene Bidart , Alexander Wong

As one of the most popular generative models, Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approximates the posterior of latent variables based on amortized variational inference. However, when the decoder network is sufficiently expressive, VAE may lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dazhong Shen , Chuan Qin , Chao Wang , Hengshu Zhu , Enhong Chen , Hui Xiong

Training and using modern neural-network based latent-variable generative models (like Variational Autoencoders) often require simultaneously training a generative direction along with an inferential(encoding) direction, which approximates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Divyansh Pareek , Andrej Risteski

Stacked denoising auto encoders (DAEs) are well known to learn useful deep representations, which can be used to improve supervised training by initializing a deep network. We investigate a training scheme of a deep DAE, where DAE layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Alexander Kalmanovich , Gal Chechik

The ultimate aim of the study is to explore the inverse design of porous metamaterials using a deep learning-based generative framework. Specifically, we develop a property-variational autoencoder (pVAE), a variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Phu Thien Nguyen , Yousef Heider , Dennis M. Kochmann , Fadi Aldakheel

Regularized autoencoders learn the latent codes, a structure with the regularization under the distribution, which enables them the capability to infer the latent codes given observations and generate new samples given the codes. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

Most deep latent factor models choose simple priors for simplicity, tractability or not knowing what prior to use. Recent studies show that the choice of the prior may have a profound effect on the expressiveness of the model,especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Hui-Po Wang , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Wei-Jan Ko

Variational Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks remained the state-of-the-art (SOTA) generative models until 2022. Now they are superseded by diffusion-based models. Efforts to improve traditional models have stagnated as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tuhin Subhra De

Classic variational autoencoders are used to learn complex data distributions, that are built on standard function approximators. Especially, VAE has shown promise on a lot of complex task. In this paper, a new autoencoder model -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Modern data-driven machine learning system designs exploit inductive biases in architectural structure, invariance and equivariance requirements, task-specific loss functions, and computational optimization tools. Previous works have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Achref Jaziri , Sina Ditzel , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

We develop a framework for incorporating structured graphical models in the \emph{encoders} of variational autoencoders (VAEs) that allows us to induce interpretable representations through approximate variational inference. This allows us…

Neural Networks play a growing role in many science disciplines, including physics. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are neural networks that are able to represent the essential information of a high dimensional data set in a low dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-08 Johannes Zacherl , Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin

Training deep generative models like Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) requires propagating gradients through stochastic latent variables, which introduces estimation variance that can slow convergence and degrade performance. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zilei Shao , Anji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck

Deterministic flow models, such as rectified flows, offer a general framework for learning a deterministic transport map between two distributions, realized as the vector field for an ordinary differential equation (ODE). However, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Saurabh Singh , Ian Fischer

A convolutional autoencoder is trained using a database of airfoil aerodynamic simulations and assessed in terms of overall accuracy and interpretability. The goal is to predict the stall and to investigate the ability of the autoencoder to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-22 Ettore Saetta , Renato Tognaccini , Gianluca Iaccarino

We introduce the variational graph auto-encoder (VGAE), a framework for unsupervised learning on graph-structured data based on the variational auto-encoder (VAE). This model makes use of latent variables and is capable of learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Thomas N. Kipf , Max Welling

Generative models have attracted significant interest due to their ability to handle uncertainty by learning the inherent data distributions. However, two prominent generative models, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu

We introduce a new category of generative autoencoders called automodulators. These networks can faithfully reproduce individual real-world input images like regular autoencoders, but also generate a fused sample from an arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Ari Heljakka , Yuxin Hou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

We extend variational autoencoders (VAEs) to collaborative filtering for implicit feedback. This non-linear probabilistic model enables us to go beyond the limited modeling capacity of linear factor models which still largely dominate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Dawen Liang , Rahul G. Krishnan , Matthew D. Hoffman , Tony Jebara

Unsupervised representation learning via generative modeling is a staple to many computer vision applications in the absence of labeled data. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that learn representations useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Riddhish Bhalodia , Iain Lee , Shireen Elhabian