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Diffusion-based methods represented as stochastic differential equations on a continuous-time domain have recently proven successful as a non-adversarial generative model. Training such models relies on denoising score matching, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sarthak Mittal , Korbinian Abstreiter , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Arash Mehrjou

Tokenizing images into compact visual representations is a key step in learning efficient and high-quality image generative models. We present a simple diffusion tokenizer (DiTo) that learns compact visual representations for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yinbo Chen , Rohit Girdhar , Xiaolong Wang , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra

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

There are many problems in physics, biology, and other natural sciences in which symbolic regression can provide valuable insights and discover new laws of nature. A widespread Deep Neural Networks do not provide interpretable solutions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sergei Popov , Mikhail Lazarev , Vladislav Belavin , Denis Derkach , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

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

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu

We present fast, realistic image generation on high-resolution, multimodal datasets using hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) trained on a deterministic autoencoder's latent space. In this two-stage setup, the autoencoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Troy Luhman , Eric Luhman

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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

In recent years, deep learning-based image compression, particularly through generative models, has emerged as a pivotal area of research. Despite significant advancements, challenges such as diminished sharpness and quality in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Ryugo Morita , Hitoshi Nishimura , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Jinjia Zhou

In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised method, which is called Denoising Masked AutoEncoders (DMAE), for learning certified robust classifiers of images. In DMAE, we corrupt each image by adding Gaussian noises to each pixel value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu , Huishuai Zhang , Liwei Wang , Di He

Representation autoencoders that reuse frozen pretrained vision encoders as visual tokenizers have achieved strong reconstruction and generation quality. However, existing methods universally extract features from only the last encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xuanyu Zhu , Yan Bai , Yang Shi , Yihang Lou , Yuanxing Zhang , Jing Jin , Yuan Zhou

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) typically rely on a probabilistic decoder with a predefined likelihood, most commonly an isotropic Gaussian, to model the data conditional on latent variables. While convenient for optimization, this choice…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Chen Xu , Qiang Wang , Lijun Sun

We investigate methods to reduce inference time and memory footprint in stable diffusion models by introducing lightweight decoders for both image and video synthesis. Traditional latent diffusion pipelines rely on large Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Alexey Buzovkin , Evgeny Shilov

Accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) has been attracting increasing attention as it can benefit a wide range of applications, e.g., enabling mobile systems with limited computing resources to own powerful visual recognition ability. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiaonan Luo , Lei Zhang

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Understanding the structure of complex, nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals is a central challenge in scientific data analysis. In many domains, such as speech and biomedical signal processing, the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Aamna Al Shehhi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

We present Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0, a suite of high-compression Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) that achieve significant advances in both reconstruction fidelity and diffusability. To address the reconstruction bottlenecks of high compression,…

Autoregressive models have recently shown great promise in visual generation by leveraging discrete token sequences akin to language modeling. However, existing approaches often suffer from inefficiency, either due to token-by-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ruiqing Yang , Kaixin Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Shan You , Tao Huang