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Variational Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks remained the state-of-the-art (SOTA) generative models until 2022. Now they are superseded by diffusion-based models. Efforts to improve traditional models have stagnated as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tuhin Subhra De

Continuous image super-resolution (SR) recently receives a lot of attention from researchers, for its practical and flexible image scaling for various displays. Local implicit image representation is one of the methods that can map the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Zhi-Song Liu , Zijia Wang , Zhen Jia

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

Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models (e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Feng Yuan

The latent space of generative modeling is long dominated by the VAE encoder. The latents from the pretrained representation encoders (e.g., DINO, SigLIP, MAE) are previously considered inappropriate for generative modeling. Recently, RAE…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hu Yu , Hang Xu , Jie Huang , Zeyue Xue , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Feng Zhao

Deep generative models are attracting great attention as a new promising approach for molecular design. All models reported so far are based on either variational autoencoder (VAE) or generative adversarial network (GAN). Here we propose a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Seung Hwan Hong , Jaechang Lim , Seongok Ryu , Woo Youn Kim

Current state-of-the-art generative approaches frequently rely on a two-stage training procedure, where an autoencoder (often a VAE) first performs dimensionality reduction, followed by training a generative model on the learned latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Gianluigi Silvestri , Luca Ambrogioni

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a theoretically-backed and popular framework for deep generative models. However, learning a VAE from data poses still unanswered theoretical questions and considerable practical challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Partha Ghosh , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Antonio Vergari , Michael Black , Bernhard Schölkopf

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) typically encode images into a compact latent space, reducing computational cost but introducing an optimization dilemma: a higher-dimensional latent space improves reconstruction fidelity but often hampers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xunzhi Xiang , Xingye Tian , Guiyu Zhang , Yabo Chen , Shaofeng Zhang , Xuebo Wang , Xin Tao , Qi Fan

It has been previously observed that training Variational Recurrent Autoencoders (VRAE) for text generation suffers from serious uninformative latent variables problem. The model would collapse into a plain language model that totally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Dayiheng Liu , Xu Yang , Feng He , Yuanyuan Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Deep generative models have emerged as influential instruments for data generation and manipulation. Enhancing the controllability of these models by selectively modifying data attributes has been a recent focus. Variational Autoencoders…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Maxime Di Folco , Cosmin Bercea , Julia A. Schnabel

Recent work leverages Vision Foundation Models as image encoders to boost the generative performance of latent diffusion models (LDMs), as their semantic feature distributions are easy to learn. However, such semantic features often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siyu Liu , Chujie Qin , Hubery Yin , Qixin Yan , Zheng-Peng Duan , Chen Li , Jing Lyu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

Autoencoders (AE) have recently been widely employed to approach the novelty detection problem. Trained only on the normal data, the AE is expected to reconstruct the normal data effectively while fail to regenerate the anomalous data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mohammadreza Salehi , Atrin Arya , Barbod Pajoum , Mohammad Otoofi , Amirreza Shaeiri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Hamid R. Rabiee

Generative thermal design for complex geometries is fundamental in many areas of engineering, yet it faces two main challenges: the high computational cost of high-fidelity simulations and the limitations of conventional generative models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Alicia Tierz , Jad Mounayer , Beatriz Moya , Francisco Chinesta

The surrogate loss of variational autoencoders (VAEs) poses various challenges to their training, inducing the imbalance between task fitting and representation inference. To avert this, the existing strategies for VAEs focus on adjusting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhangkai Wu , Longbing Cao , Lei Qi

Recent work in adversarial attacks has developed provably robust methods for training deep neural network classifiers. However, although they are often mentioned in the context of robustness, deep generative models themselves have received…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Filipe Condessa , Zico Kolter

Learning-based vehicle planning is receiving increasing attention with the emergence of diverse driving simulators and large-scale driving datasets. While offline reinforcement learning (RL) is well suited for these safety-critical tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Zenan Li , Fan Nie , Qiao Sun , Fang Da , Hang Zhao

Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with variational autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity synthesis, this VAE+diffusion paradigm suffers from limited training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minglei Shi , Haolin Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaoshi Wu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In this paper we demonstrate methods for reliable and efficient training of discrete representation using Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder models (VQ-VAEs). Discrete latent variable models have been shown to learn nontrivial…

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are expressive latent variable models that can be used to learn complex probability distributions from training data. However, the quality of the resulting model crucially relies on the expressiveness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Lars Mescheder , Sebastian Nowozin , Andreas Geiger