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Clustering is among the most fundamental tasks in computer vision and machine learning. In this paper, we propose Variational Deep Embedding (VaDE), a novel unsupervised generative clustering approach within the framework of Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Zhuxi Jiang , Yin Zheng , Huachun Tan , Bangsheng Tang , Hanning Zhou

Variational Autoencoder (VAE)-based generative models offer flexible representation learning by incorporating meta-priors, general premises considered beneficial for downstream tasks. However, the incorporated meta-priors often involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Nao Nakagawa , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Learning interpretable and disentangled representations of data is a key topic in machine learning research. Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a scalable method for learning directed latent variable models of complex data. It employs a clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Andriy Serdega , Dae-Shik Kim

A major challenge in quantum computing is its application to large real-world datasets due to scarce quantum hardware resources. One approach to enabling tractable quantum models for such datasets involves finding low-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Gaoyuan Wang , Jonathan Warrell , Prashant S. Emani , Mark Gerstein

The development of quantum-classical hybrid (QCH) algorithms is critical to achieve state-of-the-art computational models. A QCH variational autoencoder (QVAE) was introduced in Ref. [1] by some of the authors of this paper. QVAE consists…

Deep generative models have been wildly successful at learning coherent latent representations for continuous data such as video and audio. However, generative modeling of discrete data such as arithmetic expressions and molecular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-07 Matt J. Kusner , Brooks Paige , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Learning disentangled representations of real-world data is a challenging open problem. Most previous methods have focused on either supervised approaches which use attribute labels or unsupervised approaches that manipulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vikash Balasubramanian , Ivan Kobyzev , Hareesh Bahuleyan , Ilya Shapiro , Olga Vechtomova

Human face exhibits an inherent hierarchy in its representations (i.e., holistic facial expressions can be encoded via a set of facial action units (AUs) and their intensity). Variational (deep) auto-encoders (VAE) have shown great results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Dieu Linh Tran , Robert Walecki , Ognjen Rudovic , Stefanos Eleftheriadis , Bjørn Schuller , Maja Pantic

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have gained significant popularity among researchers as a powerful tool for understanding unknown distributions based on limited samples. This popularity stems partly from their impressive performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Peter L. Bartlett

Generative autoencoders learn compact latent representations of data distributions through jointly optimized encoder--decoder pairs. In particular, Wasserstein autoencoders (WAEs) minimize a relaxed optimal transport (OT) objective, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Moritz Piening , Matthias Chung

In this thesis, we explore the use of deep neural networks for generation of natural language. Specifically, we implement two sequence-to-sequence neural variational models - variational autoencoders (VAE) and variational encoder-decoders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Hareesh Bahuleyan

Deep generative models are commonly used for generating images and text. Interpretability of these models is one important pursuit, other than the generation quality. Variational auto-encoder (VAE) with Gaussian distribution as prior has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Wenxian Shi , Hao Zhou , Ning Miao , Lei Li

We propose a cross-domain latent modulation mechanism within a variational autoencoders (VAE) framework to enable improved transfer learning. Our key idea is to procure deep representations from one data domain and use it as perturbation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Jinyong Hou , Jeremiah D. Deng , Stephen Cranefield , Xuejie Ding

Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are fundamental models that compress continuous visual data into discrete tokens. Existing methods have tried to improve the quantization strategy for better reconstruction quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mingkai Jia , Wei Yin , Xiaotao Hu , Jiaxin Guo , Xiaoyang Guo , Qian Zhang , Xiao-Xiao Long , Ping Tan

An important challenge in emotion recognition is to develop methods that can leverage unlabeled training data. In this paper, we propose the VQ-MAE-AV model, a self-supervised multimodal model that leverages masked autoencoders to learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Samir Sadok , Simon Leglaive , Renaud Séguier

After deep generative models were successfully applied to image generation tasks, learning disentangled latent variables of data has become a crucial part of deep generative model research. Many models have been proposed to learn an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Sangchul Hahn , Heeyoul Choi

Quantum physics experiments produce interesting phenomena such as interference or entanglement, which are core properties of numerous future quantum technologies. The complex relationship between the setup structure of a quantum experiment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Tony Wu , Xuemei Gu , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Mario Krenn , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Representation learning seeks to expose certain aspects of observed data in a learned representation that's amenable to downstream tasks like classification. For instance, a good representation for 2D images might be one that describes only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Xi Chen , Diederik P. Kingma , Tim Salimans , Yan Duan , Prafulla Dhariwal , John Schulman , Ilya Sutskever , Pieter Abbeel

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved remarkable quality in image generation that rivals GANs'. But unlike GANs, DPMs use a set of latent variables that lack semantic meaning and cannot serve as a useful representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Konpat Preechakul , Nattanat Chatthee , Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

We present a VAE architecture for encoding and generating high dimensional sequential data, such as video or audio. Our deep generative model learns a latent representation of the data which is split into a static and dynamic part, allowing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yingzhen Li , Stephan Mandt