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Diffusion models have attained impressive visual quality for image synthesis. However, how to interpret and manipulate the latent space of diffusion models has not been extensively explored. Prior work diffusion autoencoders encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Zeyu Lu , Chengyue Wu , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lei Bai , Yu Qiao , Xihui Liu

In multiple access channels (MAC), multiple users share a transmission medium to communicate with a common receiver. Traditional constellations like quadrature amplitude modulation are optimized for point-to-point systems and lack…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Stepan Gorelenkov , Mojtaba Vaezi

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently emerged as SoTA tools for generative modeling in various domains. Standard DMs can be viewed as an instantiation of hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) where the latent variables are inferred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jiatao Gu , Shuangfei Zhai , Yizhe Zhang , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoder models for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencoder models have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Muyang Li , Yao Lu , Song Han

Diffusion autoencoders (DAEs) are typically formulated as a noise prediction model and trained with a linear-$\beta$ noise schedule that spends much of its sampling steps at high noise levels. Because high noise levels are associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Pramook Khungurn , Sukit Seripanitkarn , Phonphrm Thawatdamrongkit , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Diffusion autoencoders (DAs) are variants of diffusion generative models that use an input-dependent latent variable to capture representations alongside the diffusion process. These representations, to varying extents, can be used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Magdalena Proszewska , Nikolay Malkin , N. Siddharth

Graph structured data are abundant in the real world. Among different graph types, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are of particular interest to machine learning researchers, as many machine learning models are realized as computations on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Muhan Zhang , Shali Jiang , Zhicheng Cui , Roman Garnett , Yixin Chen

Recently most successful image synthesis models are multi stage process to combine the advantages of different methods, which always includes a VAE-like model for faithfully reconstructing embedding to image and a prior model to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jie Shi , Chenfei Wu , Jian Liang , Xiang Liu , Nan Duan

Inspired by recent advances in diffusion models, which are reminiscent of denoising autoencoders, we investigate whether they can acquire discriminative representations for classification via generative pre-training. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Weilai Xiang , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based diffusion models enable deterministic image synthesis, establishing a reversible mapping suitable for generative steganography. While prevailing methods strictly adhere to a standard normal prior,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yuhua Xu , Wei Sun , Chengpei Tang , Jiaxing Lu , Jingying Zhou , Chen Gu

Map matching for sparse trajectories is a fundamental problem for many trajectory-based applications, e.g., traffic scheduling and traffic flow analysis. Existing methods for map matching are generally based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chenxu Han , Sean Bin Yang , Jilin Hu

Recently, transformers have shown promising performance in learning graph representations. However, there are still some challenges when applying transformers to real-world scenarios due to the fact that deep transformers are hard to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Sixiao Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Haoran Yang , Xiangguo Sun , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

Data-driven flow-field reconstruction typically relies on autoencoder architectures that compress high-dimensional states into low-dimensional latent representations. However, classical approaches such as variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 AmirPouya Hemmasian , Amir Barati Farimani

Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset, with diffusion models recently becoming the most popular generative model. One of the main challenges of diffusion models is solving the problem in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Wonjun Lee , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Dongmian Zou , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

We present a variation of the Autoencoder (AE) that explicitly maximizes the mutual information between the input data and the hidden representation. The proposed model, the InfoMax Autoencoder (IMAE), by construction is able to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Vincenzo Crescimanna , Bruce Graham

We construct a new kind of encoder, leveraging the expressive power of diffusion models. In a traditional variational autoencoder, the encoder and decoder jointly negotiate a latent representation of the input. This is made possible by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Akhil Premkumar , Sarah Lucioni

As a class of fruitful approaches, diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown excellent advantages in high-resolution image reconstruction. On the other hand, masked autoencoders (MAEs), as popular self-supervised vision learners,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zhiyuan Ma , zhihuan yu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Latent diffusion models have established a new state-of-the-art in high-resolution visual generation. Integrating Vision Foundation Model priors improves generative efficiency, yet existing latent designs remain largely heuristic. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hangyu Liu , Jianyong Wang , Yutao Sun

In data-driven drug discovery, designing molecular descriptors is a very important task. Deep generative models such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer a potential solution by designing descriptors as probabilistic latent vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Daiki Koge , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya