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Autoencoders are a widespread tool in machine learning to transform high-dimensional data into a lowerdimensional representation which still exhibits the essential characteristics of the input. The encoder provides an embedding from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Juliane Braunsmann , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

Feature descriptors involved in image processing are generally manually chosen and high dimensional in nature. Selecting the most important features is a very crucial task for systems like facial expression recognition. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Muhammad Usman , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

Image compression and reconstruction are crucial for various digital applications. While contemporary neural compression methods achieve impressive compression rates, the adoption of such technology has been largely hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ethan G. Rogers , Cheng Wang

Recently, deep clustering methods have gained momentum because of the high representational power of deep neural networks (DNNs) such as autoencoder. The key idea is that representation learning and clustering can reinforce each other: Good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Wengang Guo , Kaiyan Lin , Wei Ye

Deep neural networks are widely used in various domains. However, the nature of computations at each layer of the deep networks is far from being well understood. Increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks is thus important.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Haiping Huang

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

In this short paper, a neural network that is able to form a low dimensional topological hidden representation is explained. The neural network can be trained as an autoencoder, a classifier or mix of both, and produces different low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Pitoyo Hartono

Neural rendering techniques promise efficient photo-realistic image synthesis while at the same time providing rich control over scene parameters by learning the physical image formation process. While several supervised methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Justus Thies , Varun Jampani , Matthias Nießner , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

With quantum resources a precious commodity, their efficient use is highly desirable. Quantum autoencoders have been proposed as a way to reduce quantum memory requirements. Generally, an autoencoder is a device that uses machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Alex Pepper , Nora Tischler , Geoff J. Pryde

Given a "data manifold" $M\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and "latent space" $\mathbb{R}^\ell$, an autoencoder is a pair of continuous maps consisting of an "encoder" $E\colon \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^\ell$ and "decoder" $D\colon \mathbb{R}^\ell\to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Matthew D. Kvalheim , Eduardo D. Sontag

Deep learning has significantly advanced medical imaging analysis, yet variations in image resolution remain an overlooked challenge. Most methods address this by resampling images, leading to either information loss or computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ashay Patel , Michela Antonelli , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

Graph auto-encoders are widely used to construct graph representations in Euclidean vector spaces. However, it has already been pointed out empirically that linear models on many tasks can outperform graph auto-encoders. In our work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Solveig Klepper , Ulrike von Luxburg

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

Autoencoding is a popular method in representation learning. Conventional autoencoders employ symmetric encoding-decoding procedures and a simple Euclidean latent space to detect hidden low-dimensional structures in an unsupervised way.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Stefan C. Schonsheck , Scott Mahan , Timo Klock , Alexander Cloninger , Rongjie Lai

Autoencoders enable data dimensionality reduction and a key component of many (deep) learning systems. This short paper introduces a form of Holland's Learning Classifier System (LCS) to perform autoencoding building upon a previously…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Larry Bull

Visualization is a crucial step in exploratory data analysis. One possible approach is to train an autoencoder with low-dimensional latent space. Large network depth and width can help unfolding the data. However, such expressive networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Philipp Nazari , Sebastian Damrich , Fred A. Hamprecht

High-content screening uses large collections of unlabeled cell image data to reason about genetics or cell biology. Two important tasks are to identify those cells which bear interesting phenotypes, and to identify sub-populations enriched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Lee Zamparo , Zhaolei Zhang

Choosing a suitable filtering function for the Mapper algorithm can be difficult due to its arbitrariness and domain-specific requirements. Finding a general filtering function that can be applied across domains is therefore of interest,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Filip Cornell

Scale-space representation has been popular in computer vision community due to its theoretical foundation. The motivation for generating a scale-space representation of a given data set originates from the basic observation that real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Qilu Zhao , Zongmin Li

This paper investigates a novel algorithmic approach to data representation based on kernel methods. Assuming that the observations lie in a Hilbert space X, the introduced Kernel Autoencoder (KAE) is the composition of mappings from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-03 Pierre Laforgue , Stephan Clémençon , Florence d'Alché-Buc