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Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs), widely recognized for their potential to generate high-quality samples, tend to go unnoticed in representation learning. While recent progress has highlighted their potential for capturing visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Dingshuo Chen , Shuchen Xue , Liuji Chen , Yingheng Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Liang Wang

Compressive sensing is an impressive approach for fast MRI. It aims at reconstructing MR image using only a few under-sampled data in k-space, enhancing the efficiency of the data acquisition. In this study, we propose to learn priors based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Siyuan Wang , Junjie Lv , Yuanyuan Hu , Dong Liang , Minghui Zhang , Qiegen Liu

Recent work (Bengio et al., 2013) has shown howDenoising Auto-Encoders(DAE) become gener-ative models as a density estimator. However,in practice, the framework suffers from a mixingproblem in the MCMC sampling process and nodirect method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Dong-Hyun Lee

Recent advances in self-supervised learning for EEG representation have largely relied on masked reconstruction, where models are trained to recover randomly masked signal segments. While effective at modeling local dependencies, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Shaocong Wang , Tong Liu , Yihan Li , Ming Li , Kairui Wen , Pei Yang , Wenqi Ji , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

Representation learning and exploration are among the key challenges for any deep reinforcement learning agent. In this work, we provide a singular value decomposition based method that can be used to obtain representations that preserve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yash Chandak , Shantanu Thakoor , Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Yunhao Tang , Remi Munos , Will Dabney , Diana L Borsa

Image denoising is an important problem in low-level vision and serves as a critical module for many image recovery tasks. Anisotropic diffusion is a wide family of image denoising approaches with promising performance. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xinran Qin , Yuhui Quan , Ruotao Xu , Hui Ji

Diffusion models have attained impressive visual quality for image synthesis. However, how to interpret and manipulate the latent space of diffusion models has not been extensively explored. Prior work diffusion autoencoders encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Zeyu Lu , Chengyue Wu , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lei Bai , Yu Qiao , Xihui Liu

This paper presents a novel deep learning-based method for learning a functional representation of mammalian neural images. The method uses a deep convolutional denoising autoencoder (CDAE) for generating an invariant, compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ido Cohen , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu , Noa Liscovitch , Gal Chechik

Depth perception is considered an invaluable source of information for various vision tasks. However, depth maps acquired using consumer-level sensors still suffer from non-negligible noise. This fact has recently motivated researchers to…

Learning useful representations with little or no supervision is a key challenge in artificial intelligence. We provide an in-depth review of recent advances in representation learning with a focus on autoencoder-based models. To organize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Michael Tschannen , Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic

Recent work leverages Vision Foundation Models as image encoders to boost the generative performance of latent diffusion models (LDMs), as their semantic feature distributions are easy to learn. However, such semantic features often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siyu Liu , Chujie Qin , Hubery Yin , Qixin Yan , Zheng-Peng Duan , Chen Li , Jing Lyu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

While deep neural networks have been shown to perform remarkably well in many machine learning tasks, labeling a large amount of ground truth data for supervised training is usually very costly to scale. Therefore, learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Yunchao Wei , Shengfeng He , Honghui Shi , Rynson Lau , Thomas S. Huang

Anomaly detection in tabular data remains challenging due to complex feature interactions and the scarcity of anomalous examples. Denoising autoencoders rely on fixed-magnitude noise, limiting adaptability to diverse data distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Deep auto-encoders (DAEs) have achieved great success in learning data representations via the powerful representability of neural networks. But most DAEs only focus on the most dominant structures which are able to reconstruct the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Zenglin Xu

Diffusion Models are popular generative modeling methods in various vision tasks, attracting significant attention. They can be considered a unique instance of self-supervised learning methods due to their independence from label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-19 Michael Fuest , Pingchuan Ma , Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Vincent Tao Hu , Bjorn Ommer

Recently, deep learning approaches have become the main research frontier for biological image reconstruction and enhancement problems thanks to their high performance, along with their ultra-fast inference times. However, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Mehmet Akçakaya , Burhaneddin Yaman , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently emerged as SoTA tools for generative modeling in various domains. Standard DMs can be viewed as an instantiation of hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) where the latent variables are inferred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jiatao Gu , Shuangfei Zhai , Yizhe Zhang , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind

Denoising language models (DLMs) have been proposed as a powerful alternative to traditional language models (LMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR), motivated by their ability to use bidirectional context and adapt to a specific ASR…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dorian Koch , Albert Zeyer , Nick Rossenbach , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Generalizing learned representations across significantly different visual domains is a fundamental yet crucial ability of the human visual system. While recent self-supervised learning methods have achieved good performances with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haiyang Yang , Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Wanli Ouyang

Disentangled visual representations have largely been studied with generative models such as Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). While prior work has focused on generative methods for disentangled representation learning, these approaches do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Andrea Burns , Aaron Sarna , Dilip Krishnan , Aaron Maschinot