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This work focuses on optimizing the hybrid quantum noise model to improve the capacity of Gaussian quantum channels using Machine Learning (ML) generated clusters. The work specifically leverages Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and the…

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Learning useful representations without supervision remains a key challenge in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful generative model that learns such discrete representations. Our model, the Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , Koray Kavukcuoglu

This study uses a Variational Autoencoder method to enhance the efficiency and applicability of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (McMC) methods by generating broader-spectrum prior proposals. Traditional approaches, such as the Karhunen-Lo\`eve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Marcio Borges , Felipe Pereira , Michel Tosin

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

This work introduces a novel class of channel estimators tailored for coarse quantization systems. The proposed estimators are founded on conditionally Gaussian latent generative models, specifically Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), mixture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Benedikt Fesl , Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Böck , Wolfgang Utschick

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are among leading approaches to address the problem of learning disentangled representations. Typically a single VAE is used and disentangled representations are sought within its single continuous latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Veranika Boukun , Jörg Lücke

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are highly vulnerable to presentation attacks, also called spoofing attacks. Replay is among the simplest attacks to mount - yet difficult to detect reliably. The generalization failure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Bhusan Chettri , Tomi Kinnunen , Emmanouil Benetos

This paper presents a novel approach for multimodal data fusion based on the Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQVAE) architecture. The proposed method is simple yet effective in achieving excellent reconstruction performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mohammud J. Bocus , Xiaoyang Wang , Robert. J. Piechocki

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is widely used as a generative model to approximate a model's posterior on latent variables by combining the amortized variational inference and deep neural networks. However, when paired with strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Qile Zhu , Jianlin Su , Wei Bi , Xiaojiang Liu , Xiyao Ma , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for preparing ground states in the current era of noisy devices. The classical component of the algorithm requires a large number of measurements on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Akib Karim , Shaobo Zhang , Muhammad Usman

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) stands as a key technology for advancing performance metrics such as data rate, reliability, and spectrum efficiency in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond of wireless networks. However, its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Sajjad Nassirpour , Toan-Van Nguyen , Duy H. N. Nguyen

The performance of many network learning applications crucially hinges on the success of network embedding algorithms, which aim to encode rich network information into low-dimensional vertex-based vector representations. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Wenlin Wang , Chenyang Tao , Zhe Gan , Guoyin Wang , Liqun Chen , Xinyuan Zhang , Ruiyi Zhang , Qian Yang , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Data assimilation refers to a set of algorithms designed to compute the optimal estimate of a system's state by refining the prior prediction (known as background states) using observed data. Variational assimilation methods rely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yi Xiao , Qilong Jia , Wei Xue , Lei Bai

Vector quantised variational autoencoders (VQ-VAE) are characterised by three main components: 1) encoding visual data, 2) assigning $k$ different vectors in the so-called embedding space, and 3) decoding the learnt features. While images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Arash Akbarinia , Raquel Gil-Rodríguez , Alban Flachot , Matteo Toscani

Mixture of Experts (MoE) models have achieved great success by significantly improving performance while maintaining computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, their enormous parameter sizes and memory demands pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Zukang Xu , Zhixiong Zhao , Xing Hu , Zhixuan Chen , Dawei Yang

Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been extended as a representative nonlinear method for collaborative filtering. However, the bottleneck of VAE lies in the softmax computation over all items, such that it takes linear costs in the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jin Chen , Defu Lian , Binbin Jin , Xu Huang , Kai Zheng , Enhong Chen

Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are generative models based on discrete latent representations of the data, where inputs are mapped to a finite set of learned embeddings.To generate new samples, an autoregressive prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-04 Max Cohen , Guillaume Quispe , Sylvain Le Corff , Charles Ollion , Eric Moulines

Ambiguity is inevitable in medical images, which often results in different image interpretations (e.g. object boundaries or segmentation maps) from different human experts. Thus, a model that learns the ambiguity and outputs a probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Linchen Qian , Jiasong Chen , Timur Urakov , Weiyong Gu , Liang Liang

Recent state-of-the-art autoencoder based generative models have an encoder-decoder structure and learn a latent representation with a pre-defined distribution that can be sampled from. Implementing the encoder networks of these models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 D. T. Braithwaite , M. O'Connor , W. B. Kleijn