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We focus on a specific use case in anomaly detection where the distribution of normal samples is supported by a lower-dimensional manifold. Here, regularized autoencoders provide a popular approach by learning the identity mapping on the…

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We propose to learn a hierarchical prior in the context of variational autoencoders to avoid the over-regularisation resulting from a standard normal prior distribution. To incentivise an informative latent representation of the data, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-08 Alexej Klushyn , Nutan Chen , Richard Kurle , Botond Cseke , Patrick van der Smagt

Manifold learning aims to discover and represent low-dimensional structures underlying high-dimensional data while preserving critical topological and geometric properties. Existing methods often fail to capture local details with global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ren Wang , Pengcheng Zhou

Data-driven fault diagnostics of safety-critical systems often faces the challenge of a complete lack of labeled data associated with faulty system conditions (i.e., fault types) at training time. Since an unknown number and nature of fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Manuel Arias Chao , Bryan T. Adey , Olga Fink

Variational autoencoders (VAE) represent a popular, flexible form of deep generative model that can be stochastically fit to samples from a given random process using an information-theoretic variational bound on the true underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Bin Dai , Yu Wang , John Aston , Gang Hua , David Wipf

Overparameterized machine learning (ML) methods such as neural networks may be prohibitively resource intensive for devices with limited computational capabilities. Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging resource efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Nikita Zeulin , Olga Galinina , Ravikumar Balakrishnan , Nageen Himayat , Sergey Andreev

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

This manuscript introduces a new framework for the study of knots by exploring the neighborhood of knot embeddings in the space of simple open and closed curves in 3-space. The latter gives rise to a knotoid spectrum, which determines the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Eleni Panagiotou

Studying and analyzing cropland is a difficult task due to its dynamic and heterogeneous growth behavior. Usually, diverse data sources can be collected for its estimation. Although deep learning models have proven to excel in the crop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Francisco Mena , Diego Arenas , Andreas Dengel

The study of topological bandstructures is an active area of research in condensed matter physics and beyond. Here, we combine recent progress in this field with developments in machine-learning, another rising topic of interest.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Mathias S. Scheurer , Robert-Jan Slager

Motivation: Structural heterogeneity in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data represents a major challenge for high-resolution structure determination. Unsupervised classification may serve as the first step in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-11-01 Jiayi Wu , Yong-Bei Ma , Charles Congdon , Bevin Brett , Shuobing Chen , Qi Ouyang , Youdong Mao

The joint optimization of the reconstruction and classification error is a hard non convex problem, especially when a non linear mapping is utilized. In order to overcome this obstacle, a novel optimization strategy is proposed, in which a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ioannis A. Nellas , Sotiris K. Tasoulis , Vassilis P. Plagianakos , Spiros V. Georgakopoulos

The encoding of solutions in black-box optimization is a delicate, handcrafted balance between expressiveness and domain knowledge -- between exploring a wide variety of solutions, and ensuring that those solutions are useful. Our main…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Adam Gaier , Alexander Asteroth , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Machine learning (ML) is shaping our exploration of topological matter, whose existence is inherently tied to the geometry of quantum states or energy spectra. In non-Hermitian systems, distinctive spectral geometry can lead to topological…

Circuit topology employs fundamental units of entanglement, known as soft contacts, for constructing knots from the bottom up, utilising circuit topology relations, namely parallel, series, cross, and concerted relations. In this article,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-23 Jonas Berx , Alireza Mashaghi

Learning latent representations that are simultaneously expressive, geometrically well-structured, and reliably calibrated remains a central challenge for Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). Standard VAEs typically assume a diagonal Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mehmet Can Yavuz

Linear encoding of sparse vectors is widely popular, but is commonly data-independent -- missing any possible extra (but a priori unknown) structure beyond sparsity. In this paper we present a new method to learn linear encoders that adapt…

Machine Learning (ML) is accelerating the progress of materials prediction and classification, with particular success in CGNN designs. While classical ML methods remain accessible, advanced deep networks are still challenging to build and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-04 Gavin Nop , Micah Mundy , Durga Paudyal , Jonathan Smith

Interpreting computations in the visual cortex as learning and inference in a generative model of the environment has received wide support both in neuroscience and cognitive science. However, hierarchical computations, a hallmark of visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-02 Ferenc Csikor , Balázs Meszéna , Bence Szabó , Gergő Orbán

Classification of topological phononics is challenging due to the lack of universal topological invariants and the randomness of structure patterns. Here, we show the unsupervised manifold learning for clustering topological phononics…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-13 Yang Long , Jie Ren , Hong Chen