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Reducing token count is crucial for efficient training and inference of latent diffusion models, especially at high resolution. A common strategy is to build high-compression image tokenizers with more channels per token. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xin Cai , Zhiyuan You , Zhoutong Zhang , Tianfan Xue

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) rely heavily on the compressed latent space provided by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for high-quality image generation. Recent studies have attempted to obtain generation-friendly VAEs by directly adopting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 John Page , Xuesong Niu , Kai Wu , Kun Gai

Unsupervised representation learning via generative modeling is a staple to many computer vision applications in the absence of labeled data. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that learn representations useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Riddhish Bhalodia , Iain Lee , Shireen Elhabian

Recent advances in latent diffusion models have demonstrated their effectiveness for high-resolution image synthesis. However, the properties of the latent space from tokenizer for better learning and generation of diffusion models remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hao Chen , Yujin Han , Fangyi Chen , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Ze Wang , Zicheng Liu , Difan Zou , Bhiksha Raj

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

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

Constructing a compressed latent space through a variational autoencoder (VAE) is the key for efficient 3D diffusion models. This paper introduces COD-VAE that encodes 3D shapes into a COmpact set of 1D latent vectors without sacrificing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 In Cho , Youngbeom Yoo , Subin Jeon , Seon Joo Kim

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

Selective manipulation of data attributes using deep generative models is an active area of research. In this paper, we present a novel method to structure the latent space of a Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) to encode different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Ashis Pati , Alexander Lerch

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

Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient dimension. We argue that this discrepancy may contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zijun Zhang , Ruixiang Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a popular and powerful model applied to text modelling to generate diverse sentences. However, an issue known as posterior collapse (or KL loss vanishing) happens when the VAE is used in text modelling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Ruizhe Li , Xiao Li , Guanyi Chen , Chenghua Lin

Deterministic Rank Reduction Autoencoders (RRAEs) enforce by construction a regularization on the latent space by applying a truncated SVD. While this regularization makes Autoencoders more powerful, using them for generative purposes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jad Mounayer , Alicia Tierz , Jerome Tomezyk , Chady Ghnatios , Francisco Chinesta

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

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are well-established as a principled approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning with neural networks. Typically, an encoder network defines the parameters of a Gaussian distributed latent space from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alan Jeffares , Liyuan Liu

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models with the salient ability to perform inference. Here, we introduce a quantum variational autoencoder (QVAE): a VAE whose latent generative process is implemented as a quantum…

The latent variables learned by VAEs have seen considerable interest as an unsupervised way of extracting features, which can then be used for downstream tasks. There is a growing interest in the question of whether features learned on one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Mohammad Havaei , Alex Lamb , Aditya Sanghi , Ara Danielyan , Tonya Custis

We propose a new method for unsupervised generative continual learning through realignment of Variational Autoencoder's latent space. Deep generative models suffer from catastrophic forgetting in the same way as other neural structures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Kamil Deja , Paweł Wawrzyński , Wojciech Masarczyk , Daniel Marczak , Tomasz Trzciński

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the dominant paradigm for many generation tasks including audio generation such as text-to-audio, text-to-music and text-to-speech. A key component of latent diffusion is an autoencoder (VAE) that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Prem Seetharaman , Rithesh Kumar

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoder models for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencoder models have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Muyang Li , Yao Lu , Song Han