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Learning compact and meaningful latent space representations has been shown to be very useful in generative modeling tasks for visual data. One particular example is applying Vector Quantization (VQ) in variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xin Li , Anand Sarwate

Selective manipulation of data attributes using deep generative models is an active area of research. In this paper, we present a novel method to structure the latent space of a Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) to encode different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Ashis Pati , Alexander Lerch

Quantum physics experiments produce interesting phenomena such as interference or entanglement, which are core properties of numerous future quantum technologies. The complex relationship between the setup structure of a quantum experiment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Tony Wu , Xuemei Gu , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Mario Krenn , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

While the beta-VAE family is aiming to find disentangled representations and acquire human-interpretable generative factors, like what an ICA (from the linear domain) does, we propose Full Encoder, a novel unified autoencoder framework as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Zhouzheng Li , Kun Feng

Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are fundamental to modern generative modeling, yet they often suffer from training instability and "codebook collapse" due to the inherent coupling of representation learning and discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Linwei Zhai , Han Ding , Mingzhi Lin , Cui Zhao , Fei Wang , Ge Wang , Wang Zhi , Wei Xi

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…

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are capable of learning latent representations for high dimensional data. However, due to the i.i.d. assumption, VAEs only optimize the singleton variational distributions and fail to account for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Tony Jebara , Nicholas Ruozzi

Variational Autoencoder (VAE)-based generative models offer flexible representation learning by incorporating meta-priors, general premises considered beneficial for downstream tasks. However, the incorporated meta-priors often involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Nao Nakagawa , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Integrating physics models within machine learning models holds considerable promise toward learning robust models with improved interpretability and abilities to extrapolate. In this work, we focus on the integration of incomplete physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Naoya Takeishi , Alexandros Kalousis

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 propose a novel algorithm for quantizing continuous latent representations in trained models. Our approach applies to deep probabilistic models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), and enables both data and model compression. Unlike…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Yibo Yang , Robert Bamler , Stephan Mandt

Design of experiments (DOE) is playing an essential role in learning and improving a variety of objects and processes. The article discusses the application of unsupervised machine learning to support the pragmatic designs of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Alex Glushkovsky

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 G. Maragkopoulos , A. Mandilara , A. Tsili , D. Syvridis

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

Paradoxically, a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) could be pushed in two opposite directions, utilizing powerful decoder model for generating realistic images but collapsing the learned representation, or increasing regularization coefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Trung Ngo , Najwa Laabid , Ville Hautamäki , Merja Heinäniemi

Generative learning models in medical research are crucial in developing training data for deep learning models and advancing diagnostic tools, but the problem of high-quality, diverse images is an open topic of research. Quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Nora M. Bauer , Pranay Jain , Max Masnick

Variational autoencoders are powerful algorithms for identifying dominant latent structure in a single dataset. In many applications, however, we are interested in modeling latent structure and variation that are enriched in a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Efficiently encoding classical visual data into quantum states is essential for realizing practical quantum neural networks (QNNs). However, existing encoding schemes often discard spatial and semantic information when adapting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Yuhu Lu , Jinjing Shi

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

Recent progress in quantum algorithms and hardware indicates the potential importance of quantum computing in the near future. However, finding suitable application areas remains an active area of research. Quantum machine learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nicholas Gao , Max Wilson , Thomas Vandal , Walter Vinci , Ramakrishna Nemani , Eleanor Rieffel