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Recent breakthroughs in synthetic data generation approaches made it possible to produce highly photorealistic images which are hardly distinguishable from real ones. Furthermore, synthetic generation pipelines have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Matan Fintz , Gerard Medioni

Many generative models have to combat $\textit{missing modes}$. The conventional wisdom to this end is by reducing through training a statistical distance (such as $f$-divergence) between the generated distribution and provided data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Peilin Zhong , Yuchen Mo , Chang Xiao , Pengyu Chen , Changxi Zheng

Generative models aim to learn the distribution of observed data by generating new instances. With the advent of neural networks, deep generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zifan Shi , Sida Peng , Yinghao Xu , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao , Yujun Shen

Generative modeling is typically framed as learning mapping rules, but from an observer's perspective without access to these rules, the task becomes disentangling the geometric support from the probability distribution. We propose that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-04 Rui Tong

Recognizing symmetries in data allows for significant boosts in neural network training. In many cases, however, the underlying symmetry is present only in an idealized dataset, and is broken in the training data, due to effects such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-13 Edmund Witkowski , Daniel Whiteson

The commonly used latent space embedding techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, and manifold learning techniques, are typically used for learning effective representations of homogeneous data. However, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yasin Yilmaz , Mehmet Aktukmak , Alfred O. Hero

Generative modeling builds on and substantially advances the classical idea of simulating synthetic data from observed samples. This paper shows that this principle is not only natural but also theoretically well-founded for bootstrap…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-20 Leon Tran , Ting Ye , Peng Ding , Fang Han

The explicit incorporation of task-specific inductive biases through symmetry has emerged as a general design precept in the development of high-performance machine learning models. For example, group equivariant neural networks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mircea Petrache , Shubhendu Trivedi

In this work, we propose to study the global geometrical properties of generative models. We introduce a new Riemannian metric to assess the similarity between any two data points. Importantly, our metric is agnostic to the parametrization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Beomsu Kim , Michael Puthawala , Jong Chul Ye , Emanuele Sansone

Symmetry is one of the most central concepts in physics, and it is no surprise that it has also been widely adopted as an inductive bias for machine-learning models applied to the physical sciences. This is especially true for models…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Marcel F. Langer , Sergey N. Pozdnyakov , Michele Ceriotti

Significant strides have been made toward designing better generative models in recent years. Despite this progress, however, state-of-the-art approaches are still largely unable to capture complex global structure in data. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Halley Young , Osbert Bastani , Mayur Naik

With the advent of future big-data surveys, automated tools for unsupervised discovery are becoming ever more necessary. In this work, we explore the ability of deep generative networks for detecting outliers in astronomical imaging…

Symmetry, a central concept in understanding the laws of nature, has been used for centuries in physics, mathematics, and chemistry, to help make mathematical models tractable. Yet, despite its power, symmetry has not been used extensively…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-11 Doron L. Bergman

Despite recent advances, the remaining bottlenecks in deep generative models are necessity of extensive training and difficulties with generalization from small number of training examples. We develop a new generative model called…

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Generative models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity visual content. In this work, we explore how generative models can further be used not only to synthesize visual content but also to understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yanbo Wang , Justin Dauwels , Yilun Du

Memory units have been widely used to enrich the capabilities of deep networks on capturing long-term dependencies in reasoning and prediction tasks, but little investigation exists on deep generative models (DGMs) which are good at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

We propose a new probabilistic framework that allows mobile robots to autonomously learn deep, generative models of their environments that span multiple levels of abstraction. Unlike traditional approaches that combine engineered models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Andrzej Pronobis , Rajesh P. N. Rao

Unlike image or text domains that benefit from an abundance of large-scale datasets, point cloud learning techniques frequently encounter limitations due to the scarcity of extensive datasets. To overcome this limitation, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ivan Sipiran , Gustavo Santelices , Lucas Oyarzún , Andrea Ranieri , Chiara Romanengo , Silvia Biasotti , Bianca Falcidieno

The emergence of generative AI models has dramatically expanded the availability and use of synthetic data across scientific, industrial, and policy domains. While these developments open new possibilities for data analysis, they also raise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Ahmad Abdel-Azim , Ruoyu Wang , Xihong Lin

Deep Generative Machine Learning Models (DGMs) have been growing in popularity across the design community thanks to their ability to learn and mimic complex data distributions. DGMs are conventionally trained to minimize statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Lyle Regenwetter , Faez Ahmed