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Compressed sensing techniques enable efficient acquisition and recovery of sparse, high-dimensional data signals via low-dimensional projections. In this work, we propose Uncertainty Autoencoders, a learning framework for unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-15 Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

Accurate modeling of spatial acoustics is critical for immersive and intelligible audio in confined, resonant environments such as car cabins. Current tuning methods are manual, hardware-intensive, and static, failing to account for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Harshvardhan C. Takawale , Nirupam Roy , Phil Brown

Video variational autoencoders (VAEs) used in latent diffusion models typically require a sufficiently large number of latent channels to ensure high-quality video reconstruction. However, recent studies have revealed that an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiarui Guan , Wenshuai Zhao , Zhengtao Zou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

End-to-end audio-conditioned latent diffusion models (LDMs) have been widely adopted for audio-driven portrait animation, demonstrating their effectiveness in generating lifelike and high-resolution talking videos. However, direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chunyu Li , Chao Zhang , Weikai Xu , Jingyu Lin , Jinghui Xie , Weiguo Feng , Bingyue Peng , Cunjian Chen , Weiwei Xing

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has proven to be an effective model for producing semantically meaningful latent representations for natural data. However, it has thus far seen limited application to sequential data, and, as we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Adam Roberts , Jesse Engel , Colin Raffel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

We introduce a binary latent space autoencoder architecture to rehearse training samples for the continual learning of neural networks. The ability to extend the knowledge of a model with new data without forgetting previously learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Kamil Deja , Paweł Wawrzyński , Daniel Marczak , Wojciech Masarczyk , Tomasz Trzciński

Current state-of-the-art generative approaches frequently rely on a two-stage training procedure, where an autoencoder (often a VAE) first performs dimensionality reduction, followed by training a generative model on the learned latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Gianluigi Silvestri , Luca Ambrogioni

Latent representation learning has been an active field of study for decades in numerous applications. Inspired among others by the tokenization from Natural Language Processing and motivated by the research of a simple data representation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Benoît Giniès , Xiaoyu Bie , Olivier Fercoq , Gaël Richard

Discovering and exploring the underlying structure of multi-instrumental music using learning-based approaches remains an open problem. We extend the recent MusicVAE model to represent multitrack polyphonic measures as vectors in a latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Ian Simon , Adam Roberts , Colin Raffel , Jesse Engel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

Autonomous driving has received a lot of attention in the automotive industry and is often seen as the future of transportation. Passenger vehicles equipped with a wide array of sensors (e.g., cameras, front-facing radars, LiDARs, and IMUs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Andrey Pak , Hemanth Manjunatha , Dimitar Filev , Panagiotis Tsiotras

While sparse autoencoders (SAEs) successfully extract interpretable features from language models, applying them to audio generation faces unique challenges: audio's dense nature requires compression that obscures semantic meaning, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nathan Paek , Yongyi Zang , Qihui Yang , Randal Leistikow

Purpose: Training auto-encoders on simulated signal evolution and inserting the decoder into the forward model improves reconstructions through more compact, Bloch-equation-based representations of signal in comparison to linear subspaces.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yamin Arefeen , Junshen Xu , Molin Zhang , Zijing Dong , Fuyixue Wang , Jacob White , Berkin Bilgic , Elfar Adalsteinsson

Recent advancements in Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have propelled them to the forefront of various generative tasks. However, their iterative sampling process poses a significant computational burden, resulting in slow generation speeds…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Huadai Liu , Rongjie Huang , Yang Liu , Hengyuan Cao , Jialei Wang , Xize Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

We argue that training autoencoders to reconstruct inputs from noised versions of their encodings, when combined with perceptual losses, yields encodings that are structured according to a perceptual hierarchy. We demonstrate the emergence…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mathias Rose Bjare , Giorgia Cantisani , Marco Pasini , Stefan Lattner , Gerhard Widmer

We introduce the Latent Fourier Transform (LatentFT), a framework that provides novel frequency-domain controls for generative music models. LatentFT combines a diffusion autoencoder with a latent-space Fourier transform to separate musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mason Wang , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

Connecting large libraries of digitized audio recordings to their corresponding sheet music images has long been a motivation for researchers to develop new cross-modal retrieval systems. In recent years, retrieval systems based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Stefan Balke , Matthias Dorfer , Luis Carvalho , Andreas Arzt , Gerhard Widmer

Autoregressive models are typically applied to sequences of discrete tokens, but recent research indicates that generating sequences of continuous embeddings in an autoregressive manner is also feasible. However, such Continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Marco Pasini , Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , George Fazekas

In deep learning research, many melody extraction models rely on redesigning neural network architectures to improve performance. In this paper, we propose an input feature modification and a training objective modification based on two…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Autoencoders exhibit impressive abilities to embed the data manifold into a low-dimensional latent space, making them a staple of representation learning methods. However, without explicit supervision, which is often unavailable, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Felix Leeb , Stefan Bauer , Michel Besserve , Bernhard Schölkopf