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Variational Autoencoder (VAE) aims to compress pixel data into low-dimensional latent space, playing an important role in OpenAI's Sora and other latent video diffusion generation models. While most of existing video VAEs inflate a…

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Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

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In one-class novelty detection, a model learns solely on the in-class data to single out out-class instances. Autoencoder (AE) variants aim to compactly model the in-class data to reconstruct it exclusively, thus differentiating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Jaewoo Park , Yoon Gyo Jung , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh

Generative data augmentation with latent diffusion models is a promising strategy for addressing class imbalance in medical imaging, yet current approaches focus on perceptual fidelity and domain-specific autoencoder fine-tuning while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mischa Dombrowski , Felix Nützel , Bernhard Kainz

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable results on various image synthesis tasks such as text-to-image generation and image inpainting. However, compared to other generative methods like VAEs and GANs, DPMs lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yipeng Leng , Qiangjuan Huang , Zhiyuan Wang , Yangyang Liu , Haoyu Zhang

Recently, diffusion models have brought novel insights to pan-sharpening and notably boosted fusion precision. However, most existing models perform diffusion in the pixel space and train distinct models for different multispectral (MS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Junjie Li , Congyang Ou , Haokui Zhang , Guoting Wei , Shengqin Jiang , Ying Li

Regularized autoencoders learn the latent codes, a structure with the regularization under the distribution, which enables them the capability to infer the latent codes given observations and generate new samples given the codes. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

In the last few years there have been important advancements in generative models with the two dominant approaches being Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). However, standard Autoencoders (AEs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Patrick Fox-Roberts , Edward Rosten

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

Latent diffusion models with Transformer architectures excel at generating high-fidelity images. However, recent studies reveal an optimization dilemma in this two-stage design: while increasing the per-token feature dimension in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jingfeng Yao , Bin Yang , Xinggang Wang

Generative autoencoders offer a promising approach for controllable text generation by leveraging their latent sentence representations. However, current models struggle to maintain coherent latent spaces required to perform meaningful text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Tianxiao Shen , Jonas Mueller , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Inspired by recent advances in diffusion models, which are reminiscent of denoising autoencoders, we investigate whether they can acquire discriminative representations for classification via generative pre-training. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Weilai Xiang , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-fidelity images. Despite the excellent performance and scalability of the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture, it applies fixed compression across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weinan Jia , Mengqi Huang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Zhendong Mao

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

Spatio-temporal compression of videos, utilizing networks such as Variational Autoencoders (VAE), plays a crucial role in OpenAI's SORA and numerous other video generative models. For instance, many LLM-like video models learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sijie Zhao , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Shaoshu Yang , Muyao Niu , Xiaoyu Li , Wenbo Hu , Ying Shan

Existing methods for restoring degraded human-centric images often struggle with insufficient fidelity, particularly in human body restoration (HBR). Recent diffusion-based restoration methods commonly adapt pre-trained text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jue Gong , Zihan Zhou , Jingkai Wang , Shu Li , Libo Liu , Jianliang Lan , Yulun Zhang

Combining neuroimaging datasets from multiple sites and scanners can help increase statistical power and thus provide greater insight into subtle neuroanatomical effects. However, site-specific effects pose a challenge by potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ayodeji Ijishakin , Ana Lawry Aguila , Elizabeth Levitis , Ahmed Abdulaal , Andre Altmann , James Cole

Understanding the coordinated activity underlying brain computations requires large-scale, simultaneous recordings from distributed neuronal structures at a cellular-level resolution. One major hurdle to design high-bandwidth,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Tong Wu , Wenfeng Zhao , Edward Keefer , Zhi Yang

In spite of the remarkable potential of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) in image generation, the desired properties and optimal design of the autoencoders have been underexplored. In this work, we analyze the role of autoencoders in LDMs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Junho Lee , Jeongwoo Shin , Hyungwook Choi , Joonseok Lee

Tokenizers are a crucial component of latent diffusion models, as they define the latent space in which diffusion models operate. However, existing tokenizers are primarily designed to improve reconstruction fidelity or inherit pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhengrong Yue , Taihang Hu , Mengting Chen , Haiyu Zhang , Zihao Pan , Tao Liu , Zikang Wang , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng , Yali Wang