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We address the problem of unsupervised disentanglement of latent representations learnt via deep generative models. In contrast to current approaches that operate on the evidence lower bound (ELBO), we argue that statistical independence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Harold Soh

Generative autoencoders offer a promising approach for controllable text generation by leveraging their latent sentence representations. However, current models struggle to maintain coherent latent spaces required to perform meaningful text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Tianxiao Shen , Jonas Mueller , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Data augmentation effectively addresses the imbalanced-small sample data (ISSD) problem in hyperspectral image classification (HSIC). While most methodologies extend features in the latent space, few leverage text-driven generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yimin Zhu , Lincoln Linlin Xu

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu

Autoencoder (AE) is the key to the success of latent diffusion models for image and video generation, reducing the denoising resolution and improving efficiency. However, the power of AE has long been underexplored in terms of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yushu Wu , Yanyu Li , Ivan Skorokhodov , Anil Kag , Willi Menapace , Sharath Girish , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov

Despite the empirical success of Diffusion Models (DMs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), their generalization performance remains theoretically underexplored, especially lacking a full consideration of the shared encoder-generator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qi Chen , Jierui Zhu , Florian Shkurti

One of the major shortcomings of variational autoencoders is the inability to produce generations from the individual modalities of data originating from mixture distributions. This is primarily due to the use of a simple isotropic Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Frantzeska Lavda , Magda Gregorová , Alexandros Kalousis

In this study, an image-assisted Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) parameter inverse method is proposed to identify the design parameters. In the proposed method, the images are mapped to a low-dimensional latent space by Variational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Jiaquan Wang , Yang Zeng , Xinchao Jiang , Hu Wang , Enying Li , Guangyao Li

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

Reducing token count is crucial for efficient training and inference of latent diffusion models, especially at high resolution. A common strategy is to build high-compression image tokenizers with more channels per token. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xin Cai , Zhiyuan You , Zhoutong Zhang , Tianfan Xue

We propose a framework for the statistical evaluation of variational auto-encoders (VAEs) and test two instances of this framework in the context of modelling images of handwritten digits and a corpus of English text. Our take on evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Claartje Barkhof , Wilker Aziz

Recent successes in image generation, model-based reinforcement learning, and text-to-image generation have demonstrated the empirical advantages of discrete latent representations, although the reasons behind their benefits remain unclear.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 David Friede , Christian Reimers , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Mathias Niepert

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek

Existing video Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) generally overlook the similarity between frame contents, leading to redundant latent modeling. In this paper, we propose decoupled VAE (DeCo-VAE) to achieve compact latent representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiangchen Yin , Jiahui Yuan , Zhangchi Hu , Wenzhang Sun , Jie Chen , Xiaozhen Qiao , Hao Li , Xiaoyan Sun

Generative models have attracted significant interest due to their ability to handle uncertainty by learning the inherent data distributions. However, two prominent generative models, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu

Does a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) consistently encode typical samples generated from its decoder? This paper shows that the perhaps surprising answer to this question is `No'; a (nominally trained) VAE does not necessarily amortize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 A. Taylan Cemgil , Sumedh Ghaisas , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Sven Gowal , Pushmeet Kohli

As deep Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) frameworks become more widely used for modeling biomolecular simulation data, we emphasize the capability of the VAE architecture to concurrently maximize the timescale of the latent space while…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Hannah K. Wayment-Steele , Vijay S. Pande

In data-driven drug discovery, designing molecular descriptors is a very important task. Deep generative models such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer a potential solution by designing descriptors as probabilistic latent vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Daiki Koge , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya

Variational autoencoder (VAE) neural networks can be trained to generate power system states that capture both marginal distribution and multivariate dependencies of historical data. The coordinates of the latent space codes of VAEs have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Chenguang Wang , Ensieh Sharifnia , Simon H. Tindemans , Peter Palensky

We present a coupled Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) method that improves the accuracy and robustness of the probabilistic inferences on represented data. The new method models the dependency between input feature vectors (images) and weighs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shichen Cao , Jingjing Li , Kenric P. Nelson , Mark A. Kon