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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 Now they are superseded by diffusion-based models.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…

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By composing graphical models with deep learning architectures, we learn generative models with the strengths of both frameworks. The structured variational autoencoder (SVAE) inherits structure and interpretability from graphical models,…

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We introduce a novel variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture that can generate realistic and diverse high energy physics events. The model we propose utilizes several techniques from VAE literature in order to simulate high fidelity jet…

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The generation of virtual populations (VPs) of anatomy is essential for conducting in silico trials of medical devices. Typically, the generated VP should capture sufficient variability while remaining plausible and should reflect the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F. Frangi

Synthetic data generation is of great interest in diverse applications, such as for privacy protection. Deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), are a popular approach for creating such synthetic datasets from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-17 Kiana Farhadyar , Federico Bonofiglio , Daniela Zoeller , Harald Binder

Generative modeling and clustering are conventionally distinct tasks in machine learning. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been widely explored for their ability to integrate both, providing a framework for generative clustering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jorge da Silva Gonçalves , Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Julia E. Vogt

Conditional Variational AutoEncoder (CVAE) effectively increases the diversity and informativeness of responses in open-ended dialogue generation tasks through enriching the context vector with sampled latent variables. However, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Bin Sun , Shaoxiong Feng , Yiwei Li , Jiamou Liu , Kan Li

Problems such as predicting a new shading field (Y) for an image (X) are ambiguous: many very distinct solutions are good. Representing this ambiguity requires building a conditional model P(Y|X) of the prediction, conditioned on the image.…

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We introduce the vine copula autoencoder (VCAE), a flexible generative model for high-dimensional distributions built in a straightforward three-step procedure. First, an autoencoder (AE) compresses the data into a lower dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-28 Natasa Tagasovska , Damien Ackerer , Thibault Vatter

This study addresses the challenge of predicting electric vehicle (EV) charging profiles in urban locations with limited data. Utilizing a neural network architecture, we aim to uncover latent charging profiles influenced by spatio-temporal…

Extreme weather events are widely studied in fields such as agriculture, ecology, and meteorology. The spatio-temporal co-occurrence of extreme events can strengthen or weaken under changing climate conditions. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-09 Xiaoyu Ma , Likun Zhang , Christopher K. Wikle

Recent advances in Deep Learning and probabilistic modeling have led to strong improvements in generative models for images. On the one hand, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have contributed a highly effective adversarial learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yang He , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a generative model with continuous latent variables where a pair of probabilistic encoder (bottom-up) and decoder (top-down) is jointly learned by stochastic gradient variational Bayes. We first…

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Automatically generating financial report from a piece of news is quite a challenging task. Apparently, the difficulty of this task lies in the lack of sufficient background knowledge to effectively generate long financial report. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yunpeng Ren , Ziao Wang , Yiyuan Wang , Xiaofeng Zhang

Autonomous driving faces critical challenges in rare long-tail events and complex multi-agent interactions, which are scarce in real-world data yet essential for robust safety validation. This paper presents a high-fidelity scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuhang Wang , Heye Huang , Zhenhua Xu , Kailai Sun , Baoshen Guo , Jinhua Zhao

Variational autoencoders (VAE) represent a popular, flexible form of deep generative model that can be stochastically fit to samples from a given random process using an information-theoretic variational bound on the true underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Bin Dai , Yu Wang , John Aston , Gang Hua , David Wipf

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

Deep generative models often perform poorly in real-world applications due to the heterogeneity of natural data sets. Heterogeneity arises from data containing different types of features (categorical, ordinal, continuous, etc.) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Chao Ma , Sebastian Tschiatschek , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Richard Turner , Cheng Zhang

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is a widely used generative model for learning latent representations. Burda et al. in their seminal paper showed that learning capacity of VAE is limited by over-pruning. It is a phenomenon where a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Martin Kleinsteuber

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular probabilistic generative model. However, one shortcoming of VAEs is that the latent variables cannot be discrete, which makes it difficult to generate data from different modes of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Jay A. Hennig , Akash Umakantha , Ryan C. Williamson