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Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a theoretically-backed and popular framework for deep generative models. However, learning a VAE from data poses still unanswered theoretical questions and considerable practical challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Partha Ghosh , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Antonio Vergari , Michael Black , Bernhard Schölkopf

Predicting future frames of video sequences is challenging due to the complex and stochastic nature of the problem. Video prediction methods based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs) have been a great success, but they require the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Yizhou Zhou , Chong Luo , Xiaoyan Sun , Zheng-Jun Zha , Wenjun Zeng

Recent models for learned image compression are based on autoencoders, learning approximately invertible mappings from pixels to a quantized latent representation. These are combined with an entropy model, a prior on the latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 David Minnen , Johannes Ballé , George Toderici

We propose an approach to symbolic regression based on a novel variational autoencoder for generating hierarchical structures, HVAE. It combines simple atomic units with shared weights to recursively encode and decode the individual nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sebastian Mežnar , Sašo Džeroski , Ljupčo Todorovski

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) provide an effective and simple method for modeling complex distributions. However, training VAEs often requires considerable hyperparameter tuning to determine the optimal amount of information retained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Oleh Rybkin , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine

Optimal computations under uncertainty require an adequate probabilistic representation about beliefs. Deep generative models, and specifically Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have the potential to meet this demand by building latent…

Intra-frame prediction in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard can be empirically improved by applying sets of recursive two-dimensional filters to the predicted values. However, this approach does not allow (or complicates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Amir Said , Xin Zhao , Marta Karczewicz , Jianle Chen , Feng Zou

Video autoencoders compress videos into compact latent representations for efficient reconstruction, playing a vital role in enhancing the quality and efficiency of video generation. However, existing video autoencoders often entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Cuifeng Shen , Lumin Xu , Xingguo Zhu , Gengdai Liu

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are probabilistic deep generative models underpinned by elegant theory, stable training processes, and meaningful manifold representations. However, they produce blurry images due to a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Prashnna K Gyawali , Rudra Saha , Linwei Wang , VSR Veeravasarapu , Maneesh Singh

Discrete latent variables are considered important for real world data, which has motivated research on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) with discrete latents. However, standard VAE training is not possible in this case, which has motivated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-27 Enrico Guiraud , Jakob Drefs , Jörg Lücke

Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, decoding a random latent vector from the prior usually does not produce meaningful data, at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alejandro Ascarate , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

We study the problem of synthesizing a number of likely future frames from a single input image. In contrast to traditional methods that have tackled this problem in a deterministic or non-parametric way, we propose to model future frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Tianfan Xue , Jiajun Wu , Katherine L. Bouman , William T. Freeman

Irregularly sampled time series commonly occur in several domains where they present a significant challenge to standard deep learning models. In this paper, we propose a new deep learning framework for probabilistic interpolation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Satya Narayan Shukla , Benjamin M. Marlin

Latent traversal is a popular approach to visualize the disentangled latent representations. Given a bunch of variations in a single unit of the latent representation, it is expected that there is a change in a single factor of variation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xinqi Zhu , Chang Xu , Dacheng Tao

Spatio-temporal compression of videos, utilizing networks such as Variational Autoencoders (VAE), plays a crucial role in OpenAI's SORA and numerous other video generative models. For instance, many LLM-like video models learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sijie Zhao , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Shaoshu Yang , Muyao Niu , Xiaoyu Li , Wenbo Hu , Ying Shan

An important property for deep neural networks is the ability to perform robust out-of-distribution detection on previously unseen data. This property is essential for safety purposes when deploying models for real world applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Griffin Floto , Stefan Kremer , Mihai Nica

In the field of video analytics, particularly traffic surveillance, there is a growing need for efficient and effective methods for processing and understanding video data. Traditional full video decoding techniques can be computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammet Sebul Beratoğlu , Behçet Uğur Töreyin

We introduce MHVAE, a deep hierarchical variational auto-encoder (VAE) that synthesizes missing images from various modalities. Extending multi-modal VAEs with a hierarchical latent structure, we introduce a probabilistic formulation for…

This is a tutorial and survey paper on factor analysis, probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PCA), variational inference, and Variational Autoencoder (VAE). These methods, which are tightly related, are dimensionality reduction and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-25 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a popular and powerful deep generative model. Previous works on VAEs have assumed a factorized likelihood model, whereby the output uncertainty of each pixel is assumed to be independent. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Gara Dorta , Sara Vicente , Lourdes Agapito , Neill D. F. Campbell , Ivor Simpson