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Autoencoders as tools behind anomaly searches at the LHC have the structural problem that they only work in one direction, extracting jets with higher complexity but not the other way around. To address this, we derive classifiers from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Barry M. Dillon , Tilman Plehn , Christof Sauer , Peter Sorrenson

The one-body reduced density matrix (1-RDM) of a many-body system at zero temperature gives direct access to many observables, such as the charge density, kinetic energy and occupation numbers. It would be desirable to express it as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Jack Wetherell , Andrea Costamagna , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

Representation learning seeks to expose certain aspects of observed data in a learned representation that's amenable to downstream tasks like classification. For instance, a good representation for 2D images might be one that describes only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Xi Chen , Diederik P. Kingma , Tim Salimans , Yan Duan , Prafulla Dhariwal , John Schulman , Ilya Sutskever , Pieter Abbeel

Sparse autoencoders are a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet, their interpretation depends on the inputs, making their isolated study incomplete. Polynomials offer a solution; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis

Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Tanmoy Mukherjee , Makoto Yamada , Timothy M. Hospedales

An additive autoencoder for dimension reduction, which is composed of a serially performed bias estimation, linear trend estimation, and nonlinear residual estimation, is proposed and analyzed. Computational experiments confirm that an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Tommi Kärkkäinen , Jan Hänninen

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are well-established as a principled approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning with neural networks. Typically, an encoder network defines the parameters of a Gaussian distributed latent space from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alan Jeffares , Liyuan Liu

We introduce a framework for unsupervised learning of structured predictors with overlapping, global features. Each input's latent representation is predicted conditional on the observable data using a feature-rich conditional random field.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Waleed Ammar , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence. While recent approaches achieve some degree of CL in deep neural networks, they either (1) grow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Blake Camp , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Rolando Estrada

In this book chapter, we discuss recent advances in data-driven approaches for inverse problems. In particular, we focus on the \emph{paired autoencoder} framework, which has proven to be a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Matthias Chung , Bas Peters , Michael Solomon

Autoencoders are commonly trained using element-wise loss. However, element-wise loss disregards high-level structures in the image which can lead to embeddings that disregard them as well. A recent improvement to autoencoders that helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Auto-encoder models that preserve similarities in the data are a popular tool in representation learning. In this paper we introduce several auto-encoder models that preserve local distances when mapping from the data space to the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Nutan Chen , Patrick van der Smagt , Botond Cseke

Modern deep artificial neural networks have achieved great success in the domain of computer vision and beyond. However, their application to many real-world tasks is undermined by certain limitations, such as overconfident uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Adrián Csiszárik , Beatrix Benkő , Dániel Varga

We consider the task of unsupervised extraction of meaningful latent representations of speech by applying autoencoding neural networks to speech waveforms. The goal is to learn a representation able to capture high level semantic content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jan Chorowski , Ron J. Weiss , Samy Bengio , Aäron van den Oord

Deep Learning has been widely applied in the area of image processing and natural language processing. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end communication structure based on autoencoder where the transceiver can be optimized jointly. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Tianjie Mu , Xiaohui Chen , Li Chen , Huarui Yin , Weidong Wang

We present a comprehensive study on the use of autoencoders for modelling text data, in which (differently from previous studies) we focus our attention on the following issues: i) we explore the suitability of two different models bDA and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Parth Gupta , Rafael E. Banchs , Paolo Rosso

Self-taught learning is a technique that uses a large number of unlabeled data as source samples to improve the task performance on target samples. Compared with other transfer learning techniques, self-taught learning can be applied to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Siwei Feng , Han Yu , Marco F. Duarte

Autoencoders have been used for finding interpretable and disentangled features underlying neural network representations in both image and text domains. While the efficacy and pitfalls of such methods are well-studied in vision, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Abhinav Menon , Manish Shrivastava , David Krueger , Ekdeep Singh Lubana

Autoencoder reconstructions are widely used for the task of unsupervised anomaly localization. Indeed, an autoencoder trained on normal data is expected to only be able to reconstruct normal features of the data, allowing the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 David Dehaene , Oriel Frigo , Sébastien Combrexelle , Pierre Eline

Physics-constrained data-driven computing is an emerging computational paradigm that allows simulation of complex materials directly based on material database and bypass the classical constitutive model construction. However, it remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Xiaolong He , Qizhi He , Jiun-Shyan Chen