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The framework of variational autoencoders (VAEs) provides a principled method for jointly learning latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. However, the main drawback of this approach is the blurriness of the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Jakub M. Tomczak

Integrating physics models within machine learning models holds considerable promise toward learning robust models with improved interpretability and abilities to extrapolate. In this work, we focus on the integration of incomplete physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Naoya Takeishi , Alexandros Kalousis

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular model for density estimation and representation learning. Canonically, the variational principle suggests to prefer an expressive inference model so that the variational approximation is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-10 Rui Shu , Hung H. Bui , Shengjia Zhao , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Stefano Ermon

We present two deep generative models based on Variational Autoencoders to improve the accuracy of drug response prediction. Our models, Perturbation Variational Autoencoder and its semi-supervised extension, Drug Response Variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-07 Ladislav Rampasek , Daniel Hidru , Petr Smirnov , Benjamin Haibe-Kains , Anna Goldenberg

Unsupervised representation learning holds the promise of exploiting large amounts of unlabeled data to learn general representations. A promising technique for unsupervised learning is the framework of Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kamal Gupta , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a popular and powerful deep generative model. Previous works on VAEs have assumed a factorized likelihood model, whereby the output uncertainty of each pixel is assumed to be independent. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Gara Dorta , Sara Vicente , Lourdes Agapito , Neill D. F. Campbell , Ivor Simpson

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) rely on amortized variational inference to enable efficient posterior approximation, but this efficiency comes at the cost of a shared parametrization, giving rise to the amortization gap. We propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Andrea Pollastro , Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

We propose a new structure for the variational auto-encoders (VAEs) prior, with the weakly informative multivariate Student's t-distribution. In the proposed model all distribution parameters are trained, thereby allowing for a more robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Najmeh Abiri , Mattias Ohlsson

We propose to utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) for data-driven channel estimation. The underlying true and unknown channel distribution is modeled by the VAE as a conditional Gaussian distribution in a novel way, parameterized by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Michael Baur , Benedikt Fesl , Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick

Variational autoencoders (VAEs), as an important aspect of generative models, have received a lot of research interests and reached many successful applications. However, it is always a challenge to achieve the consistency between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Xiaoyu Chen , Chen Gong , Qiang He , Xinwen Hou , Yu Liu

We present a detailed study on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for anomalous jet tagging at the Large Hadron Collider. By taking in low-level jet constituents' information, and training with background QCD jets in an unsupervised manner,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-05 Taoli Cheng , Jean-François Arguin , Julien Leissner-Martin , Jacinthe Pilette , Tobias Golling

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that are widely used for a number of downstream tasks. While it has been demonstrated that VAE training can suffer from a number of pathologies, existing literature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-17 Yaniv Yacoby , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

We apply variational autoencoders (VAE) to X-ray diffraction (XRD) data analysis on both simulated and experimental thin-film data. We show that crystal structure representations learned by a VAE reveal latent information, such as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-12 Lars Banko , Phillip M. Maffettone , Dennis Naujoks , Daniel Olds , Alfred Ludwig

Latent variable models such as the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have become a go-to tool for analyzing biological data, especially in the field of single-cell genomics. One remaining challenge is the interpretability of latent variables…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-20 Romain Lopez , Nataša Tagasovska , Stephen Ra , Kyunghyn Cho , Jonathan K. Pritchard , Aviv Regev

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

We would like to learn a representation of the data which decomposes an observation into factors of variation which we can independently control. Specifically, we want to use minimal supervision to learn a latent representation that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Diane Bouchacourt , Ryota Tomioka , Sebastian Nowozin

Autoencoders have found widespread application in both their original deterministic form and in their variational formulation (VAEs). In scientific applications and in image processing it is often of interest to consider data that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Justin Bunker , Mark Girolami , Hefin Lambley , Andrew M. Stuart , T. J. Sullivan

Purpose: Handling heterogeneous and mixed data types has become increasingly critical with the exponential growth in real-world databases. While deep generative models attempt to merge diverse data views into a common latent space, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Alejandro Guerrero-López , Carlos Sevilla-Salcedo , Vanessa Gómez-Verdejo , Pablo M. Olmos

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

A key advance in learning generative models is the use of amortized inference distributions that are jointly trained with the models. We find that existing training objectives for variational autoencoders can lead to inaccurate amortized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Shengjia Zhao , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon