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The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a seminal approach in deep generative modeling with latent variables. Interpreting its reconstruction process as a nonlinear transformation of samples from the latent posterior distribution, we apply the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Faris Janjoš , Lars Rosenbaum , Maxim Dolgov , J. Marius Zöllner

As big spatial data becomes increasingly prevalent, classical spatiotemporal (ST) methods often do not scale well. While methods have been developed to account for high-dimensional spatial objects, the setting where there are exceedingly…

Applications · Statistics 2019-08-27 Samuel I. Berchuck , Felipe A. Medeiros , Sayan Mukherjee

We present the development of a semi-supervised regression method using variational autoencoders (VAE), which is customized for use in soft sensing applications. We motivate the use of semi-supervised learning considering the fact that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yilin Zhuang , Zhuobin Zhou , Burak Alakent , Mehmet Mercangöz

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been used for unsupervised disentanglement learning of complex density distributions. Numerous variants exist to encourage disentanglement in latent space while improving reconstruction.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Kenneth Ezukwoke , Anis Hoayek , Mireille Batton-Hubert , Xavier Boucher

Detecting anomalies in multivariate time series is essential for monitoring complex industrial systems, where high dimensionality, limited labeled data, and subtle dependencies between sensors cause significant challenges. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bahareh Golchin , Banafsheh Rekabdar

Machine learning (ML) models trained to detect physical-layer threats on one optical fiber system often fail catastrophically when applied to a different system, due to variations in operating wavelength, fiber properties, and network…

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models for learning latent representations. Standard VAEs generate dispersed and unstructured latent spaces by utilizing all dimensions, which limits their interpretability, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Farshad Sangari Abiz , Reshad Hosseini , Babak N. Araabi

The key idea of variational auto-encoders (VAEs) resembles that of traditional auto-encoder models in which spatial information is supposed to be explicitly encoded in the latent space. However, the latent variables in VAEs are vectors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Zhengyang Wang , Hao Yuan , Shuiwang Ji

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have experienced recent success as data-generating models by using simple architectures that do not require significant fine-tuning of hyperparameters. However, VAEs are known to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-22 Wei Cheng , Gregory Darnell , Sohini Ramachandran , Lorin Crawford

We introduce an anomaly detection method for multivariate time series data with the aim of identifying critical periods and features influencing extreme climate events like snowmelt in the Arctic. This method leverages the Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tolulope Ale , Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel , Vandana P. Janeja

An assumption-free automatic check of medical images for potentially overseen anomalies would be a valuable assistance for a radiologist. Deep learning and especially Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have shown great potential in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 David Zimmerer , Fabian Isensee , Jens Petersen , Simon Kohl , Klaus Maier-Hein

Video anomaly detection (VAD) plays a critical role in public safety applications such as intelligent surveillance. However, the rarity, unpredictability, and high annotation cost of real-world anomalies make it difficult to scale VAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Suhang Cai , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Xiaojie Cai , Jiangbo Qian

Variational autoencdoers (VAE) are a popular approach to generative modelling. However, exploiting the capabilities of VAEs in practice can be difficult. Recent work on regularised and entropic autoencoders have begun to explore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Gregory A. Daly , Jonathan E. Fieldsend , Gavin Tabor

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) aims to detect unknown anomalous sounds of devices when only normal sound data is available. The autoencoder (AE) and self-supervised learning based methods are two mainstream methods. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jian Guan , Youde Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiyang Xiao , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jiantong Tian , Wenwu Wang

Deep generative models have been enjoying success in modeling continuous data. However it remains challenging to capture the representations for discrete structures with formal grammars and semantics, e.g., computer programs and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hanjun Dai , Yingtao Tian , Bo Dai , Steven Skiena , Le Song

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based auto encoders have shown great potential in detecting anomalies in medical images. However, state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 David Zimmerer , Simon A. A. Kohl , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein they are fooled into reconstructing a chosen target image. However, how to defend against such attacks remains an open problem. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-01 Matthew Willetts , Alexander Camuto , Tom Rainforth , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

A new form of variational autoencoder (VAE) is developed, in which the joint distribution of data and codes is considered in two (symmetric) forms: ($i$) from observed data fed through the encoder to yield codes, and ($ii$) from latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yunchen Pu , Weiyao Wang , Ricardo Henao , Liqun Chen , Zhe Gan , Chunyuan Li , Lawrence Carin

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) represents a challenging and prominent research task within computer vision. In recent years, Pose-based Video Anomaly Detection (PAD) has drawn considerable attention from the research community due to several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

In this paper, we explore the use of a variational autoencoder (VAE), a deep generative model, to compress and generate images of dark matter density fields from $\Lambda$CDM like cosmological simulations. The VAE learns a compact,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jazhiel Chacón-Lavanderos , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez , J. Alberto Vázquez