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Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that merge elements from statistics and information theory with the flexibility offered by deep neural networks to efficiently solve the generation problem for high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 A. Asperti , D. Evangelista , E. Loli Piccolomini

Is there really much more to say about sparse autoencoders (SAEs)? Autoencoders in general, and SAEs in particular, represent deep architectures that are capable of modeling low-dimensional latent structure in data. Such structure could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yin Lu , Xuening Zhu , Tong He , David Wipf

This paper proposes a new model for music prediction based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In this work, VAEs are used in a novel way in order to address two different problems: music representation into the latent space, and using this…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Rivero , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Alejandro Pazos

In this paper, we propose a novel model called Learnable VAE (L-VAE), which learns a disentangled representation together with the hyperparameters of the cost function. L-VAE can be considered as an extension of \b{eta}-VAE, wherein the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hazal Mogultay Ozcan , Sinan Kalkan , Fatos T. Yarman-Vural

Blind source separation (BSS) seeks to recover latent source signals from observed mixtures. Variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer a natural perspective for this problem: the latent variables can be interpreted as source components, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Yuan-Hao Wei , Fu-Hao Deng , Lin-Yong Cui , Yan-Jie Sun

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular deep latent variable model used to analyse high-dimensional datasets by learning a low-dimensional latent representation of the data. It simultaneously learns a generative model and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mine Öğretir , Siddharth Ramchandran , Dimitrios Papatheodorou , Harri Lähdesmäki

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful framework for learning probabilistic latent variable generative models. However, typical assumptions on the approximate posterior distribution of the encoder and/or the prior, seriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou , Elan Rosenfeld , Artur Dubrawski

Variational autoencoders (VAEs), that are built upon deep neural networks have emerged as popular generative models in computer vision. Most of the work towards improving variational autoencoders has focused mainly on making the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Siddharth Agrawal , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Recent 3D content generation pipelines commonly employ Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to encode shapes into compact latent representations for diffusion-based generation. However, the widely adopted uniform point sampling strategy in Shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Rui Chen , Jianfeng Zhang , Yixun Liang , Guan Luo , Weiyu Li , Jiarui Liu , Xiu Li , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiashi Feng , Ping Tan

Sparse auto-encoders (SAEs) have re-emerged as a prominent method for mechanistic interpretability, yet they face two significant challenges: the non-smoothness of the $L_1$ penalty, which hinders reconstruction and scalability, and a lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ouns El Harzli , Hugo Wallner , Yoonsoo Nam , Haixuan Xavier Tao

Automatic melody generation has been a long-time aspiration for both AI researchers and musicians. However, learning to generate euphonious melodies has turned out to be highly challenging. This paper introduces 1) a new variant of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yu-An Wang , Yu-Kai Huang , Tzu-Chuan Lin , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

In this tutorial, we explore Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), an essential framework for unsupervised learning, particularly suited for high-dimensional datasets such as neuroimaging. By integrating deep learning with Bayesian inference,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 C. Vázquez-García , F. J. Martínez-Murcia , F. Segovia Román , Juan M. Górriz Sáez

We investigate the potential of adaptive blind equalizers based on variational inference for carrier recovery in optical communications. These equalizers are based on a low-complexity approximation of maximum likelihood channel estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Vincent Lauinger , Fred Buchali , Laurent Schmalen

In recent years, there is an increasing interests in reconstruction based generative models for image One-Class Novelty Detection, most of which only focus on image-level information. While in this paper, we further exploit the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ge Zhang , Wangzhe Du

VAEs, or variational autoencoders, are autoencoders that explicitly learn the distribution of the input image space rather than assuming no prior information about the distribution. This allows it to classify similar samples close to each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Fareed Sheriff , Sameer Pai

With the advent of data-driven statistical modeling and abundant computing power, researchers are turning increasingly to deep learning for audio synthesis. These methods try to model audio signals directly in the time or frequency domain.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Krishna Subramani , Preeti Rao , Alexandre D'Hooge

The standard approach for neural topic modeling uses a variational autoencoder (VAE) framework that jointly minimizes the KL divergence between the estimated posterior and prior, in addition to the reconstruction loss. Since neural topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Raymond Li , Felipe González-Pizarro , Linzi Xing , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

Neural networks are used for channel decoding, channel detection, channel evaluation, and resource management in multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider the problem of finding precoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Evgeny Bobrov , Alexander Markov , Sviatoslav Panchenko , Dmitry Vetrov

Understanding the structure of complex, nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals is a central challenge in scientific data analysis. In many domains, such as speech and biomedical signal processing, the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Aamna Al Shehhi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

Human perception is inherently multimodal. We integrate, for instance, visual, proprioceptive and tactile information into one experience. Hence, multimodal learning is of importance for building robotic systems that aim at robustly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Carlotta Langer , Yasmin Kim Georgie , Ilja Porohovoj , Verena Vanessa Hafner , Nihat Ay