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With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

In this paper we introduce the deep kernelized autoencoder, a neural network model that allows an explicit approximation of (i) the mapping from an input space to an arbitrary, user-specified kernel space and (ii) the back-projection from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-09 Michael Kampffmeyer , Sigurd Løkse , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Robert Jenssen , Lorenzo Livi

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are essential tools in end-to-end representation learning. However, the sequential text generation common pitfall with VAEs is that the model tends to ignore latent variables with a strong auto-regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhao , Ping Yu , Suchismit Mahapatra , Qinliang Su , Changyou Chen

Denoising autoencoders (DAEs) are powerful deep learning models used for feature extraction, data generation and network pre-training. DAEs consist of an encoder and decoder which may be trained simultaneously to minimise a loss (function)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Antonia Creswell , Kai Arulkumaran , Anil A. Bharath

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are designed to extract interpretable features from language models by enforcing a sparsity constraint. Ideally, training an SAE would yield latents that are both sparse and semantically meaningful. However, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiaoqing Sun , Alessandro Stolfo , Joshua Engels , Ben Wu , Senthooran Rajamanoharan , Mrinmaya Sachan , Max Tegmark

The autoencoder is an effective unsupervised learning model which is widely used in deep learning. It is well known that an autoencoder with a single fully-connected hidden layer, a linear activation function and a squared error cost…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-01 Elad Plaut

Reconstruction error-based neural architectures constitute a classical deep learning approach to anomaly detection which has shown great performances. It consists in training an Autoencoder to reconstruct a set of examples deemed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Fabrizio Angiulli , Fabio Fassetti , Luca Ferragina

The use of Variational Autoencoders in different Machine Learning tasks has drastically increased in the last years. They have been developed as denoising, clustering and generative tools, highlighting a large potential in a wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Helena Andrés-Terré , Pietro Lió

In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

Autoencoders can be challenged by spatially non-uniform sampling of image content. This is common in medical imaging, biology, and physics, where informative patterns occur rarely at specific image coordinates, as background dominates these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Alejandro Castañeda Garcia , Jan van Gemert , Daan Brinks , Nergis Tömen

Regularized training of an autoencoder typically results in hidden unit biases that take on large negative values. We show that negative biases are a natural result of using a hidden layer whose responsibility is to both represent the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-09 Kishore Konda , Roland Memisevic , David Krueger

Formal verification provides a powerful framework for proving that dynamical systems satisfy their specifications. However, these techniques face scalability challenges in high-dimensional settings, as they often rely on state-space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Robert Reed , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

Representation learning for text via pretraining a language model on a large corpus has become a standard starting point for building NLP systems. This approach stands in contrast to autoencoders, also trained on raw text, but with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Ivan Montero , Nikolaos Pappas , Noah A. Smith

We present a new latent model of natural images that can be learned on large-scale datasets. The learning process provides a latent embedding for every image in the training dataset, as well as a deep convolutional network that maps the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 ShahRukh Athar , Evgeny Burnaev , Victor Lempitsky

Many machine learning models use the manipulation of dimensions as a driving force to enable models to identify and learn important features in data. In the case of sequential data this manipulation usually happens on the token dimension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Daniel Biermann , Fabrizio Palumbo , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

An anomaly detection method based on deep autoencoders is proposed to address anomalies that often occur in enterprise-level ETL data streams. The study first analyzes multiple types of anomalies in ETL processes, including delays, missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Chen , Saili Uday Gadgil , Kangning Gao , Yi Hu , Cong Nie

In this paper we present an end-to-end meta-learned system for image compression. Traditional machine learning based approaches to image compression train one or more neural network for generalization performance. However, at inference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Nannan Zou , Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jani Lainema , Miska Hannuksela , Emre Aksu , Esa Rahtu

There is an increasingly apparent need for validating the classifications made by deep learning systems in safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicle systems. A number of recent papers have proposed methods for detecting anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Taylor Denouden , Rick Salay , Krzysztof Czarnecki , Vahdat Abdelzad , Buu Phan , Sachin Vernekar

In disentangled representation learning, a model is asked to tease apart a dataset's underlying sources of variation and represent them independently of one another. Since the model is provided with no ground truth information about these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kyle Hsu , Will Dorrell , James C. R. Whittington , Jiajun Wu , Chelsea Finn

Unsupervised discovery of latent representations, in addition to being useful for density modeling, visualisation and exploratory data analysis, is also increasingly important for learning features relevant to discriminative tasks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-10-27 Jasper Snoek , Ryan Prescott Adams , Hugo Larochelle