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Learning latent representations that are simultaneously expressive, geometrically well-structured, and reliably calibrated remains a central challenge for Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). Standard VAEs typically assume a diagonal Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mehmet Can Yavuz

We would like to learn latent representations that are low-dimensional and highly interpretable. A model that has these characteristics is the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model. The benefits and negative of the GP-LVM are complementary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 Erik Bodin , Iman Malik , Carl Henrik Ek , Neill D. F. Campbell

This work studies the problem of modeling visual processes by leveraging deep generative architectures for learning linear, Gaussian representations from observed sequences. We propose a joint learning framework, combining a vector…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alexander Sagel , Hao Shen

This paper introduces the Descriptive Variational Autoencoder (DVAE), an unsupervised and end-to-end trainable neural network for predicting vehicle trajectories that provides partial interpretability. The novel approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Marion Neumeier , Andreas Tollkühn , Thomas Berberich , Michael Botsch

This paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of contemporary Variational Autoencoder (VAE) architectures employed in anomaly detection, elucidating their performance and behavioral characteristics within this specific task. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Huy Hoang Nguyen , Cuong Nhat Nguyen , Xuan Tung Dao , Quoc Trung Duong , Dzung Pham Thi Kim , Minh-Tan Pham

We present a new method to visualize data ensembles by constructing structured probabilistic representations in latent spaces, i.e., lower-dimensional representations of spatial data features. Our approach transforms the spatial features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Cenyang Wu , Qinhan Yu , Liang Zhou

Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models (e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Feng Yuan

Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient dimension. We argue that this discrepancy may contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zijun Zhang , Ruixiang Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull

Measuring the similarity between data points often requires domain knowledge, which can in parts be compensated by relying on unsupervised methods such as latent-variable models, where similarity/distance is estimated in a more compact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Francesco Ferroni , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

This paper proposes a new high dimensional regression method by merging Gaussian process regression into a variational autoencoder framework. In contrast to other regression methods, the proposed method focuses on the case where output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 YoungJoon Yoo , Sangdoo Yun , Hyung Jin Chang , Yiannis Demiris , Jin Young Choi

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Bayesian optimisation in the latent space of a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) is a powerful framework for optimisation tasks over complex structured domains, such as the space of scientifically interesting molecules. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Henry B. Moss , Sebastian W. Ober , Tom Diethe

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

Although unsupervised generative modeling of an image dataset using a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been used to detect anomalous images, or anomalous regions in images, recent works have shown that this method often identifies images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 David Dehaene , Pierre Eline

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework remains a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, especially for discrete data where generative adversarial networks (GANs) require workaround to create gradient for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Jason Chou , Gautam Hathi

Variational autoencoders employ an amortized inference model to approximate the posterior of latent variables. However, such amortized variational inference faces two challenges: (1) the limited posterior expressiveness of fully-factorized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yookoon Park , Chris Dongjoo Kim , Gunhee Kim

Latent diffusion models have established a new state-of-the-art in high-resolution visual generation. Integrating Vision Foundation Model priors improves generative efficiency, yet existing latent designs remain largely heuristic. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hangyu Liu , Jianyong Wang , Yutao Sun

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are widely used for dimensionality reduction of large-scale tabular and image datasets, under the assumption of independence between data observations. In practice, however, datasets are often correlated, with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Giora Simchoni , Saharon Rosset

The rising use of machine learning in various fields requires robust methods to create synthetic tabular data. Data should preserve key characteristics while addressing data scarcity challenges. Current approaches based on Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Patricia A. Apellániz , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

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