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We present a general strategy for turning generative models into candidate solution samplers for batch Bayesian optimization (BO). The use of generative models for BO enables large batch scaling as generative sampling, optimization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Rafael Oliveira , Daniel M. Steinberg , Edwin V. Bonilla

In the development of locally resonant metamaterials, the physical resonator design is often omitted and replaced by an idealized mass-spring system. This paper presents a novel approach for designing multimodal resonant structures, which…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sander Dedoncker , Christian Donner , Raphael Bischof , Linus Taenzer , Bart Van Damme

We introduce the vine copula autoencoder (VCAE), a flexible generative model for high-dimensional distributions built in a straightforward three-step procedure. First, an autoencoder (AE) compresses the data into a lower dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-28 Natasa Tagasovska , Damien Ackerer , Thibault Vatter

Accurately predicting counterfactual user feedback is essential for building effective recommender systems. However, latent confounding bias can obscure the true causal relationship between user feedback and item exposure, ultimately…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianfeng Deng , Qingfeng Chen , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Shichao Zhang

To relieve intensive human-expertise required to design optimization algorithms, recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) researches leverage generalization strength of meta-learning to train neural network-based algorithm design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chen Wang , Yue-Jiao Gong , Zhiguang Cao , Zeyuan Ma

Generative models of graphs are well-known, but many existing models are limited in scalability and expressivity. We present a novel sequential graphical variational autoencoder operating directly on graphical representations of data. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Bowen Jing , Ethan A. Chi , Jillian Tang

Collaborative Optimization (CO) is a multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) framework that decomposes large-scale engineering problems into parallel, independently solvable subsystems coordinated by a system-level optimizer. Its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Mohamed Ali Belhafnaoui , Youssef Diouane

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

In recent years, increasingly complex computational models are being built to describe physical systems which has led to increased use of surrogate models to reduce computational cost. In problems related to Structural Health Monitoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Nicholas E. Silionis , Theodora Liangou , Konstantinos N. Anyfantis

Recently, deep generative models have become increasingly popular in unsupervised anomaly detection. However, deep generative models aim at recovering the data distribution rather than detecting anomalies. Besides, deep generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Xuhong Wang , Ying Du , Shijie Lin , Ping Cui , Yuntian Shen , Yupu Yang

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are one class of generative probabilistic latent-variable models designed for inference based on known data. We develop three variations on VAEs by introducing a second parameterized encoder/decoder pair and,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 R. I. Cukier

In human dialogue, a single query may elicit numerous appropriate responses. The Transformer-based dialogue model produces frequently occurring sentences in the corpus since it is a one-to-one mapping function. CVAE is a technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Huihui Yang

Reinforcement learning has shown great potential in generalizing over raw sensory data using only a single neural network for value optimization. There are several challenges in the current state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Per-Arne Andersen , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

Generative auto-bidding has demonstrated strong performance in online advertising, yet it often suffers from data scarcity in small-scale settings with limited advertiser participation. While cross-task data sharing is a natural remedy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yiqin Lv , Zhiyu Mou , Miao Xu , Jinghao Chen , Qi Wang , Yixiu Mao , Yun Qu , Rongquan Bai , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Xiangyang Ji

Variational autoencoders (VAE) are a powerful and widely-used class of models to learn complex data distributions in an unsupervised fashion. One important limitation of VAEs is the prior assumption that latent sample representations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Francesco Paolo Casale , Adrian V Dalca , Luca Saglietti , Jennifer Listgarten , Nicolo Fusi

As deep generative models proliferate across the AI landscape, industrial practitioners still face critical yet unanswered questions about which deep generative models best suit complex manufacturing design tasks. This work addresses this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Fouad Oubari , Raphael Meunier , Rodrigue Décatoire , Mathilde Mougeot

Among the wide variety of image generative models, two models stand out: Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). GANs can produce realistic images, but they suffer from mode collapse and do not provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Understanding relationships across multiple imaging modalities is central to neuroimaging research. We introduce the Integrative Variational Autoencoder (InVA), the first hierarchical VAE framework for image-on-image regression in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bowen Lei , Yeseul Jeon , Rajarshi Guhaniyogi , Aaron Scheffler , Bani Mallick , Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiatives

Deep generative models like GAN and VAE have shown impressive results in generating unconstrained objects like images. However, many design settings arising in industrial design, material science, computer graphics and more require that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Aaron Ferber , Arman Zharmagambetov , Taoan Huang , Bistra Dilkina , Yuandong Tian

We present a novel algorithm for parameter learning in generic deep generative models that builds upon the predictive coding (PC) framework of computational neuroscience. Our approach modifies the standard PC algorithm to bring performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Umais Zahid , Qinghai Guo , Zafeirios Fountas