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In this paper, we address the unsupervised speech enhancement problem based on recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE). This approach offers promising generalization performance over the supervised counterpart. Nevertheless, the involved…

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Variational autoencoders (VAEs) provide an effective and simple method for modeling complex distributions. However, training VAEs often requires considerable hyperparameter tuning to determine the optimal amount of information retained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Oleh Rybkin , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) have proven to be a well suited tool for performing dimensionality reduction by extracting latent variables lying in a potentially much smaller dimensional space than the data. Their ability to capture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Clément Chadebec , Clément Mantoux , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Full characterization of the spectral behavior of generative models based on neural networks remains an open issue. Recent research has focused heavily on generative adversarial networks and the high-frequency discrepancies between real and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Sara Björk , Jonas Nordhaug Myhre , Thomas Haugland Johansen

Microstructure quantification is an important step towards establishing structure-property relationships in materials. Machine learning-based image processing methods have been shown to outperform conventional image processing techniques…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-26 Michael D. White , Michael D. Atkinson , Adam J. Plowman , Pratheek Shanthraj

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are powerful tools for interpreting neural representations, yet their use in audio remains underexplored. We train SAEs across all encoder layers of Whisper and HuBERT, provide an extensive evaluation of their…

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular probabilistic generative model. However, one shortcoming of VAEs is that the latent variables cannot be discrete, which makes it difficult to generate data from different modes of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Jay A. Hennig , Akash Umakantha , Ryan C. Williamson

Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models (e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Feng Yuan

Variation Autoencoder (VAE) has become a powerful tool in modeling the non-linear generative process of data from a low-dimensional latent space. Recently, several studies have proposed to use VAE for unsupervised clustering by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Qingyu Zhao , Nicolas Honnorat , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl

Tools to generate high quality synthetic speech signal that is perceptually indistinguishable from speech recorded from human speakers are easily available. Several approaches have been proposed for detecting synthetic speech. Many of these…

Dynamical variational autoencoders (DVAEs) are a class of deep generative models with latent variables, dedicated to model time series of high-dimensional data. DVAEs can be considered as extensions of the variational autoencoder (VAE) that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xiaoyu Bie , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Laurent Girin

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based autoencoders have shown great potential in detecting anomalies in medical images. However, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 David Zimmerer , Simon Kohl , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Recent audio generation models typically rely on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and perform generation within the VAE latent space. Although VAEs excel at compression and reconstruction, their latents inherently encode low-level acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zeyu Xie , Chenxing Li , Qiao Jin , Xuenan Xu , Guanrou Yang , Wenfu Wang , Mengyue Wu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

We investigate unsupervised models that can map a variable-duration speech segment to a fixed-dimensional representation. In settings where unlabelled speech is the only available resource, such acoustic word embeddings can form the basis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Herman Kamper

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,…

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Automatic melody generation has been a long-time aspiration for both AI researchers and musicians. However, learning to generate euphonious melodies has turned out to be highly challenging. This paper introduces 1) a new variant of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yu-An Wang , Yu-Kai Huang , Tzu-Chuan Lin , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

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

The Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently demonstrated effectiveness in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for analyzing natural images. By reconstructing complete images from partially masked inputs, the ViT encoder gathers contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Badhan Kumar Das , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

In recent years, applying Deep Learning (DL) techniques emerged as a common practice in the communication system, demonstrating promising results. The present paper proposes a new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based Variational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Raghu Vamshi Hemadri , Akshay Rayaluru , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have lately been used to uncover interpretable latent features in large language models. By projecting dense embeddings into a much higher-dimensional and sparse space, learned features become disentangled and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Viktoria Schuster