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Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are a powerful representation learning framework that can discover discrete groups of features from a speech signal without supervision. Until now, the VQ-VAE architecture has previously…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yi Zhao , Haoyu Li , Cheng-I Lai , Jennifer Williams , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

We present a deep-learning Variational Encoder-Decoder (VED) framework for learning data-driven low-dimensional representations of the relationship between high-dimensional parameters of a physical system and the system's high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Subashree Venkatasubramanian , David A. Barajas-Solano

Density estimation, compression and data generation are crucial tasks in artificial intelligence. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) constitute a single framework to achieve these goals. Here, we present a novel class of generative models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Jakub M. Tomczak

Vector quantization approaches (VQ-VAE, VQ-GAN) learn discrete neural representations of images, but these representations are inherently position-dependent: codes are spatially arranged and contextually entangled, requiring autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jamie S. J. Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Hubert P. H. Shum

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful deep generative models widely used to represent high-dimensional complex data through a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Laurent Girin , Simon Leglaive , Xiaoyu Bie , Julien Diard , Thomas Hueber , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Defining and separating cancer subtypes is essential for facilitating personalized therapy modality and prognosis of patients. The definition of subtypes has been constantly recalibrated as a result of our deepened understanding. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zheng Chen , Ziwei Yang , Lingwei Zhu , Guang Shi , Kun Yue , Takashi Matsubara , Shigehiko Kanaya , MD Altaf-Ul-Amin

Variational encoder-decoders (VEDs) have shown promising results in dialogue generation. However, the latent variable distributions are usually approximated by a much simpler model than the powerful RNN structure used for encoding and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Xiaoyu Shen , Hui Su , Shuzi Niu , Vera Demberg

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

Wastewater-based genomic surveillance has emerged as a powerful tool for population-level viral monitoring, offering comprehensive insights into circulating viral variants across entire communities. However, this approach faces significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Adele Chinda , Richmond Azumah , Hemanth Demakethepalli Venkateswara

Deep latent variable models, trained using variational autoencoders or generative adversarial networks, are now a key technique for representation learning of continuous structures. However, applying similar methods to discrete structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Jake Zhao , Yoon Kim , Kelly Zhang , Alexander M. Rush , Yann LeCun

Latent variables (LVs) play a crucial role in encoder-decoder models by enabling effective data compression, prediction, and generation. Although their theoretical properties, such as generalization, have been extensively studied in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Futoshi Futami , Masahiro Fujisawa

Self-supervised learning is one of the most promising approaches to acquiring knowledge from limited labeled data. Despite the substantial advancements made in recent years, self-supervised models have posed a challenge to practitioners, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Franciskus Xaverius Erick , Mina Rezaei , Johanna Paula Müller , Bernhard Kainz

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are capable of learning latent representations for high dimensional data. However, due to the i.i.d. assumption, VAEs only optimize the singleton variational distributions and fail to account for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Tony Jebara , Nicholas Ruozzi

Deep generative models with discrete latent space, such as the Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE), offer excellent data generation capabilities, but, due to the large size of their latent space, their probabilistic inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Armin Hadžić , Milan Papez , Tomáš Pevný

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) encoders play a critical role in modern generative models, yet their computational cost often motivates the use of knowledge distillation or quantification to obtain compact alternatives. Existing studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiaming Chu , Tao Wang , Lei Jin

Uncovering emergent concepts across transformer layers remains a significant challenge because the residual stream linearly mixes and duplicates information, obscuring how features evolve within large language models. Current research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ankur Garg , Xuemin Yu , Hassan Sajjad , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Understanding the structure of complex, nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals is a central challenge in scientific data analysis. In many domains, such as speech and biomedical signal processing, the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Aamna Al Shehhi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Although variational autoencoders (VAEs) represent a widely influential deep generative model, many aspects of the underlying energy function remain poorly understood. In particular, it is commonly believed that Gaussian encoder/decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Bin Dai , David Wipf

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are essential tools in end-to-end representation learning. However, the sequential text generation common pitfall with VAEs is that the model tends to ignore latent variables with a strong auto-regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhao , Ping Yu , Suchismit Mahapatra , Qinliang Su , Changyou Chen