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Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that can be used for learning the distribution of complex data. VAEs have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mostafa Sadeghi , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-PIneda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

We propose a framework for interactive and explainable machine learning that enables users to (1) understand machine learning models; (2) diagnose model limitations using different explainable AI methods; as well as (3) refine and optimize…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Thilo Spinner , Udo Schlegel , Hanna Schäfer , Mennatallah El-Assady

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have received much attention recently as an end-to-end architecture for text generation with latent variables. In this paper, we investigate several multi-level structures to learn a VAE model to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Dinghan Shen , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yizhe Zhang , Liqun Chen , Xin Wang , Jianfeng Gao , Lawrence Carin

Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

Deep neural networks with discrete latent variables offer the promise of better symbolic reasoning, and learning abstractions that are more useful to new tasks. There has been a surge in interest in discrete latent variable models, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Aurko Roy , Ashish Vaswani , Arvind Neelakantan , Niki Parmar

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are used for transfer learning across various research domains such as music generation or medical image analysis. However, there is no principled way to assess before transfer which components to retrain or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Lisa Bonheme , Marek Grzes

Multi-view data from the same source often exhibit correlation. This is mirrored in correlation between the latent spaces of separate variational autoencoders (VAEs) trained on each data-view. A multi-view VAE approach is proposed that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-01 Ella S. C. Orme , Marina Evangelou , Ulrich Paquet

VAEs are probabilistic graphical models based on neural networks that allow the coding of input data in a latent space formed by simpler probability distributions and the reconstruction, based on such latent variables, of the source data.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jordi de la Torre

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

This paper introduces a modified variational autoencoder (VAEs) that contains an additional neural network branch. The resulting branched VAE (BVAE) contributes a classification component based on the class labels to the total loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ahmed Salah , David Yevick

We present a detailed study on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for anomalous jet tagging at the Large Hadron Collider. By taking in low-level jet constituents' information, and training with background QCD jets in an unsupervised manner,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-05 Taoli Cheng , Jean-François Arguin , Julien Leissner-Martin , Jacinthe Pilette , Tobias Golling

Although variational autoencoders (VAEs) represent a widely influential deep generative model, many aspects of the underlying energy function remain poorly understood. In particular, it is commonly believed that Gaussian encoder/decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Bin Dai , David Wipf

Optimal computations under uncertainty require an adequate probabilistic representation about beliefs. Deep generative models, and specifically Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have the potential to meet this demand by building latent…

Electron, optical, and scanning probe microscopy methods are generating ever increasing volume of image data containing information on atomic and mesoscale structures and functionalities. This necessitates the development of the machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mani Valleti , Yongtao Liu , Sergei Kalinin

In this work we present an unsupervised approach to summarize sentences in abstractive way using Variational Autoencoder (VAE). VAE are known to learn a semantically rich latent variable, representing high dimensional input. VAEs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Raphael Schumann

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…

The high cost of acquiring labels is one of the main challenges in deploying supervised machine learning algorithms. Active learning is a promising approach to control the learning process and address the difficulties of data labeling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Michael B. Wakin

Recently, a generative variational autoencoder (VAE) has been proposed for speech enhancement to model speech statistics. However, this approach only uses clean speech in the training phase, making the estimation particularly sensitive to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Huajian Fang , Guillaume Carbajal , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

Variational autoencoders are prominent generative models for modeling discrete data. However, with flexible decoders, they tend to ignore the latent codes. In this paper, we study a VAE model with a deterministic decoder (DD-VAE) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Daniil Polykovskiy , Dmitry Vetrov

New system for i-vector speaker recognition based on variational autoencoder (VAE) is investigated. VAE is a promising approach for developing accurate deep nonlinear generative models of complex data. Experiments show that VAE provides…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Timur Pekhovsky , Maxim Korenevsky