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Learning a disentangled, interpretable, and structured latent representation in 3D generative models of faces and bodies is still an open problem. The problem is particularly acute when control over identity features is required. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can generate high-quality images by operating directly on SSL patch features rather than pixel-space latents. However, the dense patch grids from encoders like DINOv2 contain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ramón Calvo-González , François Fleuret

Recent work on generative modeling of text has found that variational auto-encoders (VAE) incorporating LSTM decoders perform worse than simpler LSTM language models (Bowman et al., 2015). This negative result is so far poorly understood,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

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

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the dominant framework for high-fidelity and efficient image generation, owing to their ability to learn diffusion processes in compact latent spaces. However, while previous research has focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Qifan Li , Xingyu Zhou , Jinhua Zhang , Weiyi You , Shuhang Gu

Despite advances in deep probabilistic models, learning discrete latent representations remains challenging. This work introduces a novel method to improve inference in discrete Variational Autoencoders by reframing the inference problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 María Martínez-García , Grace Villacrés , David Mitchell , Pablo M. Olmos

Among likelihood-based approaches for deep generative modelling, variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer scalable amortized posterior inference and fast sampling. However, VAEs are also more and more outperformed by competing models such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Antoine Wehenkel , Gilles Louppe

Tokenizers are a key component of state-of-the-art generative image models, extracting the most important features from the signal while reducing data dimension and redundancy. Most current tokenizers are based on KL-regularized variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Théophane Vallaeys , Jakob Verbeek , Matthieu Cord

Recent 3D content generation pipelines commonly employ Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to encode shapes into compact latent representations for diffusion-based generation. However, the widely adopted uniform point sampling strategy in Shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Rui Chen , Jianfeng Zhang , Yixun Liang , Guan Luo , Weiyu Li , Jiarui Liu , Xiu Li , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiashi Feng , Ping Tan

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) are known to have an unstable generation process, where even small perturbations or shifts in the input noise can lead to significantly different outputs. This hinders their applicability in applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yifan Zhou , Zeqi Xiao , Shuai Yang , Xingang Pan

VAEs, or variational autoencoders, are autoencoders that explicitly learn the distribution of the input image space rather than assuming no prior information about the distribution. This allows it to classify similar samples close to each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Fareed Sheriff , Sameer Pai

We investigate large-scale latent variable models (LVMs) for neural story generation -- an under-explored application for open-domain long text -- with objectives in two threads: generation effectiveness and controllability. LVMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Le Fang , Tao Zeng , Chaochun Liu , Liefeng Bo , Wen Dong , Changyou Chen

Density estimation, compression and data generation are crucial tasks in artificial intelligence. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) constitute a single framework to achieve these goals. Here, we present a novel class of generative models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Jakub M. Tomczak

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), as a form of deep generative model, have been widely used in recent years, and shown great great peformance in a number of different domains, including image generation and anomaly detection, etc.. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Liang Cheng , Peiyuan Guan , Amir Taherkordi , Lei Liu , Dapeng Lan

We introduce an improved variational autoencoder (VAE) for text modeling with topic information explicitly modeled as a Dirichlet latent variable. By providing the proposed model topic awareness, it is more superior at reconstructing input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yijun Xiao , Tiancheng Zhao , William Yang Wang

This paper proposes Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder (DirVAE) using a Dirichlet prior for a continuous latent variable that exhibits the characteristic of the categorical probabilities. To infer the parameters of DirVAE, we utilize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Weonyoung Joo , Wonsung Lee , Sungrae Park , Il-Chul Moon

In recent years Variation Autoencoders have become one of the most popular unsupervised learning of complicated distributions.Variational Autoencoder (VAE) provides more efficient reconstructive performance over a traditional autoencoder.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Gautam Ramachandra

Imaging the 6D phase space of a beam in a particle accelerator in a single shot is currently impossible. Single shot beam measurements only exist for certain 2D beam projections and these methods are destructive. A virtual diagnostic that…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Alexander Scheinker

Latent variable generative models have emerged as powerful tools for generative tasks including image and video synthesis. These models are enabled by pretrained autoencoders that map high resolution data into a compressed lower dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohammed Suhail , Carlos Esteves , Leonid Sigal , Ameesh Makadia

Existing video Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) generally overlook the similarity between frame contents, leading to redundant latent modeling. In this paper, we propose decoupled VAE (DeCo-VAE) to achieve compact latent representation.…

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