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Latent generative models have emerged as a leading approach for high-quality image synthesis. These models rely on an autoencoder to compress images into a latent space, followed by a generative model to learn the latent distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theodoros Kouzelis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is an established generative model but is notorious for its blurriness. In this work, we investigate the blurry output problem of VAE and resolve it, exploiting the variance of Gaussian decoder and $\beta$ of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Seunghwan Kim , Seungkyu Lee

A large part of the literature on learning disentangled representations focuses on variational autoencoders (VAE). Recent developments demonstrate that disentanglement cannot be obtained in a fully unsupervised setting without inductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Graziano Mita , Maurizio Filippone , Pietro Michiardi

Autoencoders have found widespread application in both their original deterministic form and in their variational formulation (VAEs). In scientific applications and in image processing it is often of interest to consider data that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Justin Bunker , Mark Girolami , Hefin Lambley , Andrew M. Stuart , T. J. Sullivan

In many data analysis tasks, it is beneficial to learn representations where each dimension is statistically independent and thus disentangled from the others. If data generating factors are also statistically independent, disentangled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-12 Harshvardhan Sikka , Weishun Zhong , Jun Yin , Cengiz Pehlevan

Recently, autoencoders (AEs) have gained interest for creating parametric and invertible projections of multidimensional data. Parametric projections make it possible to embed new, unseen samples without recalculating the entire projection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Frederik L. Dennig , Daniel A. Keim

We combine conditional variational autoencoders (VAE) with adversarial censoring in order to learn invariant representations that are disentangled from nuisance/sensitive variations. In this method, an adversarial network attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Deniz Erdogmus

Variational autoencoder (VAE) estimates the posterior parameters (mean and variance) of latent variables corresponding to each input data. While it is used for many tasks, the transparency of the model is still an underlying issue. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Akira Nakagawa , Keizo Kato , Taiji Suzuki

Recent advances in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model interpretability have led to impressive progress in visualizing and understanding model predictions. In particular, gradient-based visual attention methods have driven much recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Wenqian Liu , Runze Li , Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Bir Bhanu , Richard J. Radke , Octavia Camps

Representation learning seeks to expose certain aspects of observed data in a learned representation that's amenable to downstream tasks like classification. For instance, a good representation for 2D images might be one that describes only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Xi Chen , Diederik P. Kingma , Tim Salimans , Yan Duan , Prafulla Dhariwal , John Schulman , Ilya Sutskever , Pieter Abbeel

We propose a novel Conditional Latent space Variational Autoencoder (CL-VAE) to perform improved pre-processing for anomaly detection on data with known inlier classes and unknown outlier classes. This proposed variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Oskar Åström , Alexandros Sopasakis

Inference and inverse problems are closely related concepts, both fundamentally involving the deduction of unknown causes or parameters from observed data. Bayesian inference, a powerful class of methods, is often employed to solve a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-17 Yuan-Hao Wei , Yan-Jie Sun , Chen Zhang

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) employ Bayesian inference to interpret sensory inputs, mirroring processes that occur in primate vision across both ventral (Higgins et al., 2021) and dorsal (Vafaii et al., 2023) pathways. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hadi Vafaii , Dekel Galor , Jacob L. Yates

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

Interpretable machine learning is rapidly becoming a crucial tool for scientific discovery. Among existing approaches, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in extracting the hidden physical features of some input data, with no…

Recent advances in deep learning have shown their ability to learn strong feature representations for images. The task of image clustering naturally requires good feature representations to capture the distribution of the data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Vignesh Prasad , Dipanjan Das , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

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

Learning rich data representations from unlabeled data is a key challenge towards applying deep learning algorithms in downstream tasks. Several variants of variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been proposed to learn compact data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Pan Xiao , Peijie Qiu , Sungmin Ha , Abdalla Bani , Shuang Zhou , Aristeidis Sotiras

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are a popular generative model used to approximate distributions. The encoder part of the VAE is used in amortized learning of latent variables, producing a latent representation for data samples. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-12 Daniel G. Edelberg , Roy R. Lederman

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are one class of generative probabilistic latent-variable models designed for inference based on known data. We develop three variations on VAEs by introducing a second parameterized encoder/decoder pair and,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 R. I. Cukier