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Disentangled representation learning aims to represent the underlying generative factors of a dataset in a latent representation independently of one another. In our work, we propose a discrete variational autoencoder (VAE) based model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Gulcin Baykal , Melih Kandemir , Gozde Unal

In this work, we propose a new generative model that is capable of automatically decoupling global and local representations of images in an entirely unsupervised setting, by embedding a generative flow in the VAE framework to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Xuezhe Ma , Xiang Kong , Shanghang Zhang , Eduard Hovy

Multi-modal generative models represent an important family of deep models, whose goal is to facilitate representation learning on data with multiple views or modalities. However, current deep multi-modal models focus on the inference of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Mihee Lee , Vladimir Pavlovic

Generative AI has significantly advanced text-driven image generation, but it still faces challenges in producing outputs that consistently align with evolving user preferences and intents, particularly in multi-turn dialogue scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kun Li , Jianhui Wang , Miao Zhang , Xueqian Wang

As deep neural networks become more adept at traditional tasks, many of the most exciting new challenges concern multimodality---observations that combine diverse types, such as image and text. In this paper, we introduce a family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mike Wu , Noah Goodman

Recent language models can generate interesting and grammatically correct text in story generation but often lack plot development and long-term coherence. This paper experiments with a latent vector planning approach based on a TD-VAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 David Wilmot , Frank Keller

Optimizing complex systems, ranging from LLM prompts to multi-turn agents, traditionally requires labor-intensive manual iteration. We formalize this challenge as a stochastic generative optimization problem where a generative language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xuanfei Ren , Allen Nie , Tengyang Xie , Ching-An Cheng

Recently, molecule generation using deep learning has been actively investigated in drug discovery. In this field, Transformer and VAE are widely used as powerful models, but they are rarely used in combination due to structural and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-08 Yasuhiro Yoshikai , Tadahaya Mizuno , Shumpei Nemoto , Hiroyuki Kusuhara

It is desirable to include more controllable attributes to enhance the diversity of generated responses in open-domain dialogue systems. However, existing methods can generate responses with only one controllable attribute or lack a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Haiqin Yang , Xiaoyuan Yao , Yiqun Duan , Jianping Shen , Jie Zhong , Kun Zhang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has recently emerged as a potential research domain, captivating the interest of many in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. Despite the prevalence of approaches in English, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ngoc Son Nguyen , Van Son Nguyen , Tung Le

Devising deep latent variable models for multi-modal data has been a long-standing theme in machine learning research. Multi-modal Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been a popular generative model class that learns latent representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-25 Marcel Hirt , Domenico Campolo , Victoria Leong , Juan-Pablo Ortega

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

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models consisting of two components: a generative model that captures a data distribution p(x) by transforming a distribution p(z) over latent space, and an inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yaniv Yacoby , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech in noisy environments. Recent studies have shown that incorporating visual cues in audio signal processing can enhance SE performance. Given that human speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Meng-Ping Lin , Jen-Cheng Hou , Chia-Wei Chen , Shao-Yi Chien , Jun-Cheng Chen , Xugang Lu , Yu Tsao

While disentangled representations have shown promise in generative modeling and representation learning, their downstream usefulness remains debated. Recent studies re-defined disentanglement through a formal connection to symmetries,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Cristian Meo , Louis Mahon , Anirudh Goyal , Justin Dauwels

We consider multi-solution optimization and generative models for the generation of diverse artifacts and the discovery of novel solutions. In cases where the domain's factors of variation are unknown or too complex to encode manually,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Alexander Hagg , Sebastian Berns , Alexander Asteroth , Simon Colton , Thomas Bäck

Consider a movie studio aiming to produce a set of new movies for summer release: What types of movies it should produce? Who would the movies appeal to? How many movies should it make? Similar issues are encountered by a variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Vinh Vo Thanh , Harold Soh

Due to the phenomenon of "posterior collapse," current latent variable generative models pose a challenging design choice that either weakens the capacity of the decoder or requires augmenting the objective so it does not only maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ali Razavi , Aäron van den Oord , Ben Poole , Oriol Vinyals

Recent work on generative modeling of text has found that variational auto-encoders (VAE) incorporating LSTM decoders perform worse than simpler LSTM language models (Bowman et al., 2015). This negative result is so far poorly understood,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Paradoxically, a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) could be pushed in two opposite directions, utilizing powerful decoder model for generating realistic images but collapsing the learned representation, or increasing regularization coefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Trung Ngo , Najwa Laabid , Ville Hautamäki , Merja Heinäniemi