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In recent years, the task of video prediction-forecasting future video given past video frames-has attracted attention in the research community. In this paper we propose a novel approach to this problem with Vector Quantized Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Jacob Walker , Ali Razavi , Aäron van den Oord

Multimodal generative models require a unified approach to handle both discrete data (e.g., text and code) and continuous data (e.g., image, audio, video). In this work, we propose Latent Language Modeling (LatentLM), which seamlessly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yutao Sun , Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds. We redevelop the VAE framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrew Gracyk

Autoencoder (AE) is the key to the success of latent diffusion models for image and video generation, reducing the denoising resolution and improving efficiency. However, the power of AE has long been underexplored in terms of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yushu Wu , Yanyu Li , Ivan Skorokhodov , Anil Kag , Willi Menapace , Sharath Girish , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov

Purpose: Handling heterogeneous and mixed data types has become increasingly critical with the exponential growth in real-world databases. While deep generative models attempt to merge diverse data views into a common latent space, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Alejandro Guerrero-López , Carlos Sevilla-Salcedo , Vanessa Gómez-Verdejo , Pablo M. Olmos

As deep Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) frameworks become more widely used for modeling biomolecular simulation data, we emphasize the capability of the VAE architecture to concurrently maximize the timescale of the latent space while…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Hannah K. Wayment-Steele , Vijay S. Pande

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

In this paper, we propose the Dynamic Latent Frame Rate VAE (DLFR-VAE), a training-free paradigm that can make use of adaptive temporal compression in latent space. While existing video generative models apply fixed compression rates via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zhihang Yuan , Siyuan Wang , Rui Xie , Hanling Zhang , Tongcheng Fang , Yuzhang Shang , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

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

The performance of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) is critically dependent on the quality of their visual tokenizers. While recent works have explored incorporating Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) into the tokenizers training via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tianci Bi , Xiaoyi Zhang , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Learning interpretable and disentangled representations of data is a key topic in machine learning research. Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a scalable method for learning directed latent variable models of complex data. It employs a clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Andriy Serdega , Dae-Shik Kim

We introduce LTX-Video, a transformer-based latent diffusion model that adopts a holistic approach to video generation by seamlessly integrating the responsibilities of the Video-VAE and the denoising transformer. Unlike existing methods,…

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has proven to be an effective model for producing semantically meaningful latent representations for natural data. However, it has thus far seen limited application to sequential data, and, as we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Adam Roberts , Jesse Engel , Colin Raffel , Curtis Hawthorne , Douglas Eck

This paper proposes a method for detecting anomalies in video data. A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is used for reducing the dimensionality of video frames, generating latent space information that is comparable to low-dimensional sensory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Giulia Slavic , Damian Campo , Mohamad Baydoun , Pablo Marin , David Martin , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

MeanFlow (MF) is a diffusion-motivated generative model that enables efficient few-step generation by learning long jumps directly from noise to data. In practice, it is often used as a latent MF by leveraging the pre-trained Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zheyuan Hu , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Ge Wu , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

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

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,…

Latent diffusion models pair VAEs with diffusion backbones, and the structure of VAE latents strongly influences the difficulty of diffusion training. However, existing video VAEs typically focus on reconstruction fidelity, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Shizhan Liu , Xinran Deng , Zhuoyi Yang , Jiayan Teng , Xiaotao Gu , Jie Tang

Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yuan Gao , Chen Chen , Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular, deep, latent-variable model (DLVM) due to its simple yet effective formulation for modeling the data distribution. Moreover, optimizing the VAE objective function is more manageable than other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Surojit Saha , Sarang Joshi , Ross Whitaker