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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

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an inexpensive and widely available tool for cardiac assessment. Despite its standardized format and small file size, the high complexity and inter-individual variability of ECG signals (typically a…

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Conditional Autoencoders (CAEs) offer a flexible, interpretable approach for estimating latent asset-pricing factors from firm characteristics. However, existing studies usually limit the latent factor dimension to around K=5 due to…

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One major challenge of disentanglement learning with variational autoencoders is the trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction fidelity. Previous studies, which increase the information bottleneck during training, tend to lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo , Xiang Yang , Muhammad Awais , Sara Atito , Xingshen Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiang Yang

Recently there has been an increased interest in unsupervised learning of disentangled representations using the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework. Most of the existing work has focused largely on modifying the variational cost…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Jan Stühmer , Richard E. Turner , Sebastian Nowozin

A fully disentangled variational auto-encoder (VAE) aims to identify disentangled latent components from observations. However, enforcing full independence between all latent components may be too strict for certain datasets. In some cases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chengrui Li , Yunmiao Wang , Yule Wang , Weihan Li , Dieter Jaeger , Anqi Wu

Scientific archives now contain hundreds of petabytes of data across genomics, ecology, climate, and molecular biology that could reveal undiscovered patterns if systematically analyzed at scale. Large-scale, weakly-supervised datasets in…

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Latent variable models such as the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have become a go-to tool for analyzing biological data, especially in the field of single-cell genomics. One remaining challenge is the interpretability of latent variables…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-20 Romain Lopez , Nataša Tagasovska , Stephen Ra , Kyunghyn Cho , Jonathan K. Pritchard , Aviv Regev

Disentangled sequential autoencoders (DSAEs) represent a class of probabilistic graphical models that describes an observed sequence with dynamic latent variables and a static latent variable. The former encode information at a frame rate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yin-Jyun Luo , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

We propose Tree Variational Autoencoder (TreeVAE), a new generative hierarchical clustering model that learns a flexible tree-based posterior distribution over latent variables. TreeVAE hierarchically divides samples according to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Julia Vogt

An effective approach for voice conversion (VC) is to disentangle linguistic content from other components in the speech signal. The effectiveness of variational autoencoder (VAE) based VC (VAE-VC), for instance, strongly relies on this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Wen-Chin Huang , Hao Luo , Hsin-Te Hwang , Chen-Chou Lo , Yu-Huai Peng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

In our previous work, we proposed a discriminative autoencoder (DcAE) for speech recognition. DcAE combines two training schemes into one. First, since DcAE aims to learn encoder-decoder mappings, the squared error between the reconstructed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Tuan Huang , Yao-Fei Cheng , Hsin-Min Wang

We propose a novel Conditional Latent space Variational Autoencoder (CL-VAE) to perform improved pre-processing for anomaly detection on data with known inlier classes and unknown outlier classes. This proposed variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Oskar Åström , Alexandros Sopasakis

This work presents a framework based on feature disentanglement to learn speaker embeddings that are robust to environmental variations. Our framework utilises an auto-encoder as a disentangler, dividing the input speaker embedding into…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 KiHyun Nam , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Joon Son Chung

Identifying customer segments in retail banking portfolios with different risk profiles can improve the accuracy of credit scoring. The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has shown promising results in different research domains, and it has been…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Rogelio Andrade Mancisidor , Michael Kampffmeyer , Kjersti Aas , Robert Jenssen

Disentanglement is a useful property in representation learning which increases the interpretability of generative models such as Variational autoencoders (VAE), Generative Adversarial Models, and their many variants. Typically in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Arun Pandey , Michael Fanuel , Joachim Schreurs , Johan A. K. Suykens

Disentangled and interpretable latent representations in generative models typically come at the cost of generation quality. The $\beta$-VAE framework introduces a hyperparameter $\beta$ to balance disentanglement and reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Anshuk Uppal , Yuhta Takida , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuki Mitsufuji

While unsupervised variational autoencoders (VAE) have become a powerful tool in neuroimage analysis, their application to supervised learning is under-explored. We aim to close this gap by proposing a unified probabilistic model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Nicolas Honnorat , Tuo Leng , Kilian M. Pohl

Recent work (Bengio et al., 2013) has shown howDenoising Auto-Encoders(DAE) become gener-ative models as a density estimator. However,in practice, the framework suffers from a mixingproblem in the MCMC sampling process and nodirect method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Dong-Hyun Lee

Embracing the deep learning techniques for representation learning in clustering research has attracted broad attention in recent years, yielding a newly developed clustering paradigm, viz. the deep clustering (DC). Typically, the DC models…

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