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Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) has been widely applied as a fundamental generative model in machine learning. For complex samples like imagery objects or scenes, however, VAE suffers from the dimensional dilemma between reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Deli Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Bo Zhang

Deep generative models such as conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs) have shown great promise for predicting trajectories of surrounding agents in autonomous vehicle planning. State-of-the-art models have achieved remarkable accuracy…

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Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and its variations are classic generative models by learning a low-dimensional latent representation to satisfy some prior distribution (e.g., Gaussian distribution). Their advantages over GAN are that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Cong Geng , Jia Wang , Li Chen , Zhiyong Gao

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jason Chou

Deep generative models have demonstrated their effectiveness in learning latent representation and modeling complex dependencies of time series. In this paper, we present a Smoothness-Inducing Sequential Variational Auto-Encoder (SISVAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Longyuan Li , Junchi Yan , Haiyang Wang , Yaohui Jin

Laminated composite materials are widely used in most fields of engineering. Wave propagation analysis plays an essential role in understanding the short-duration transient response of composite structures. The forward physics-based models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Mahindra Rautela , J. Senthilnath , Armin Huber , S. Gopalakrishnan

Deep generative neural networks, such as Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs), offer an opportunity to better understand and control language models from the perspective of sentence-level latent spaces. To combine the controllability of VAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yingji Zhang , Danilo S. Carvalho , Ian Pratt-Hartmann , André Freitas

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models consisting of two components: a generative model that captures a data distribution p(x) by transforming a distribution p(z) over latent space, and an inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yaniv Yacoby , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

Recent work in synthetic data generation in the time-series domain has focused on the use of Generative Adversarial Networks. We propose a novel architecture for synthetically generating time-series data with the use of Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Abhyuday Desai , Cynthia Freeman , Zuhui Wang , Ian Beaver

Learning a disentangled, interpretable, and structured latent representation in 3D generative models of faces and bodies is still an open problem. The problem is particularly acute when control over identity features is required. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

Learning from an imbalanced distribution presents a major challenge in predictive modeling, as it generally leads to a reduction in the performance of standard algorithms. Various approaches exist to address this issue, but many of them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Samuel Stocksieker , Denys Pommeret , Arthur Charpentier

Successfully training Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) with a hierarchy of discrete latent variables remains an area of active research. Vector-Quantised VAEs are a powerful approach to discrete VAEs, but naive hierarchical extensions can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-05 Matthew Willetts , Xenia Miscouridou , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

We introduce a Deep Kernel Learning Variational Autoencoder (VAE-DKL) framework that integrates the generative power of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with the predictive nature of Deep Kernel Learning (DKL). The VAE learns a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Boris N. Slautin , Utkarsh Pratiush , Doru C. Lupascu , Maxim A. Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

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,…

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Deep generative models with discrete latent space, such as the Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE), offer excellent data generation capabilities, but, due to the large size of their latent space, their probabilistic inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Armin Hadžić , Milan Papez , Tomáš Pevný

Video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) enables latent video generative modeling by mapping the visual world into compact spatiotemporal latent spaces, improving training efficiency and stability. While existing video VAEs achieve commendable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yian Zhao , Feng Wang , Qiushan Guo , Chang Liu , Xiangyang Ji , Jian Zhang , Jie Chen

Variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a powerful unsupervised learning framework for image generation. One drawback of VAE is that it generates blurry images due to its Gaussianity assumption and thus L2 loss. To allow the generation of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Lei Cai , Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

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

Generative models able to synthesize layouts of different kinds (e.g. documents, user interfaces or furniture arrangements) are a useful tool to aid design processes and as a first step in the generation of synthetic data, among other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Diego Martin Arroyo , Janis Postels , Federico Tombari

Variational autoencoder (VAE) neural networks can be trained to generate power system states that capture both marginal distribution and multivariate dependencies of historical data. The coordinates of the latent space codes of VAEs have…

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