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Probabilistic forecasting of high dimensional multivariate time series is a notoriously challenging task, both in terms of computational burden and distribution modeling. Most previous work either makes simple distribution assumptions or…

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Integrating physics models within machine learning models holds considerable promise toward learning robust models with improved interpretability and abilities to extrapolate. In this work, we focus on the integration of incomplete physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Naoya Takeishi , Alexandros Kalousis

Deep generative models like VAEs and diffusion models have advanced various generation tasks by leveraging latent variables to learn data distributions and generate high-quality samples. Despite the field of explainable AI making strides in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mengdan Zhu , Raasikh Kanjiani , Jiahui Lu , Andrew Choi , Qirui Ye , Liang Zhao

To have a superior generalization, a deep learning neural network often involves a large size of training sample. With increase of hidden layers in order to increase learning ability, neural network has potential degradation in accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Lianfa Li , Ying Fang , Jun Wu , Jinfeng Wang

Variational autoencoders (VAE) often use Gaussian or category distribution to model the inference process. This puts a limit on variational learning because this simplified assumption does not match the true posterior distribution, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Ke Sun , Xiangliang Zhang

This is a tutorial and survey paper on factor analysis, probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PCA), variational inference, and Variational Autoencoder (VAE). These methods, which are tightly related, are dimensionality reduction and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-25 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

In this paper, we study two aspects of the variational autoencoder (VAE): the prior distribution over the latent variables and its corresponding posterior. First, we decompose the learning of VAEs into layerwise density estimation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Chin-Wei Huang , Ahmed Touati , Laurent Dinh , Michal Drozdzal , Mohammad Havaei , Laurent Charlin , Aaron Courville

In recent years, the field of machine learning has made phenomenal progress in the pursuit of simulating real-world data generation processes. One notable example of such success is the variational autoencoder (VAE). In this work, with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-30 Hwan Goh , Sheroze Sheriffdeen , Jonathan Wittmer , Tan Bui-Thanh

How can we perform efficient inference and learning in directed probabilistic models, in the presence of continuous latent variables with intractable posterior distributions, and large datasets? We introduce a stochastic variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-13 Diederik P Kingma , Max Welling

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…

We present a representation learning algorithm that learns a low-dimensional latent dynamical system from high-dimensional \textit{sequential} raw data, e.g., video. The framework builds upon recent advances in amortized inference methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jung-Su Ha , Young-Jin Park , Hyeok-Joo Chae , Soon-Seo Park , Han-Lim Choi

Variational autoencoders were proven successful in domains such as computer vision and speech processing. Their adoption for modeling user preferences is still unexplored, although recently it is starting to gain attention in the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Noveen Sachdeva , Giuseppe Manco , Ettore Ritacco , Vikram Pudi

Forecasting tasks using large datasets gathering thousands of heterogeneous time series is a crucial statistical problem in numerous sectors. The main challenge is to model a rich variety of time series, leverage any available external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Etienne David , Jean Bellot , Sylvain Le Corff

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are expressive latent variable models that can be used to learn complex probability distributions from training data. However, the quality of the resulting model crucially relies on the expressiveness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Lars Mescheder , Sebastian Nowozin , Andreas Geiger

Variational autoencoders model high-dimensional data by positing low-dimensional latent variables that are mapped through a flexible distribution parametrized by a neural network. Unfortunately, variational autoencoders often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-03 Yixin Wang , David M. Blei , John P. Cunningham

We investigate the problem of learning representations that are invariant to certain nuisance or sensitive factors of variation in the data while retaining as much of the remaining information as possible. Our model is based on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-11 Christos Louizos , Kevin Swersky , Yujia Li , Max Welling , Richard Zemel

Inference and prediction under partial knowledge of a physical system is challenging, particularly when multiple confounding sources influence the measured response. Explicitly accounting for these influences in physics-based models is…

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Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that merge elements from statistics and information theory with the flexibility offered by deep neural networks to efficiently solve the generation problem for high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 A. Asperti , D. Evangelista , E. Loli Piccolomini

Recently, variational autoencoders have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then used to perform speech enhancement. However, variational autoencoders are trained on clean speech only, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Guillaume Carbajal , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann