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Autoencoders have demonstrated remarkable success in learning low-dimensional latent features of high-dimensional data across various applications. Assuming that data are sampled near a low-dimensional manifold, we employ chart…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-26 Hao Liu , Alex Havrilla , Rongjie Lai , Wenjing Liao

Autoencoders (AE) are simple yet powerful class of neural networks that compress data by projecting input into low-dimensional latent space (LS). Whereas LS is formed according to the loss function minimization during training, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Nikita Gabdullin

In this paper, we present an in-depth investigation of the convolutional autoencoder (CAE) bottleneck. Autoencoders (AE), and especially their convolutional variants, play a vital role in the current deep learning toolbox. Researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ilja Manakov , Markus Rohm , Volker Tresp

Subsurface imaging involves solving full waveform inversion (FWI) to predict geophysical properties from measurements. This problem can be reframed as an image-to-image translation, with the usual approach being to train an encoder-decoder…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Peng Jin , Shihang Feng , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

A common pipeline in functional data analysis is to first convert the discretely observed data to smooth functions, and then represent the functions by a finite-dimensional vector of coefficients summarizing the information. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sidi Wu , Cédric Beaulac , Jiguo Cao

Constant-curvature Riemannian manifolds (CCMs) have been shown to be ideal embedding spaces in many application domains, as their non-Euclidean geometry can naturally account for some relevant properties of data, like hierarchy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

It is shown that applying manifold learning techniques to Poincar\'e sections of high-dimensional, chaotic dynamical systems can uncover their low-dimensional topological organization. Manifold learning provides a low-dimensional embedding…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Evangelos Siminos

Even though auto-encoders (AEs) have the desirable property of learning compact representations without labels and have been widely applied to out-of-distribution (OoD) detection, they are generally still poorly understood and are used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Cosmin I. Bercea , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

A convolutional autoencoder is trained using a database of airfoil aerodynamic simulations and assessed in terms of overall accuracy and interpretability. The goal is to predict the stall and to investigate the ability of the autoencoder to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-22 Ettore Saetta , Renato Tognaccini , Gianluca Iaccarino

Small satellite technologies have enhanced the potential and feasibility of geodesic missions, through simplification of design and decreased costs allowing for more frequent launches. On-satellite data acquisition systems can benefit from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Dishanand Jayeprokash , Julia Gonski

Deep neural networks usually benefit from unsupervised pre-training, e.g. auto-encoders. However, the classifier further needs supervised fine-tuning methods for good discrimination. Besides, due to the limits of full-connection, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Hailin Shi , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei , Shengcai Liao , Stan Z. Li

Manifold alignment (MA) involves a set of techniques for learning shared representations across domains, yet many traditional MA methods are incapable of performing out-of-sample extension, limiting their real-world applicability. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jake S. Rhodes , Adam G. Rustad , Marshall S. Nielsen , Morgan Chase McClellan , Dallan Gardner , Dawson Hedges

Natural data observed in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is often constrained to an $m$-dimensional manifold $\mathcal{M}$, where $m < n$. This work focuses on the task of building theoretically principled generative models for such data. Current generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-25 Brendan Leigh Ross , Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

Optimizing molecular design and discovering novel chemical structures to meet certain objectives, such as quantitative estimates of the drug-likeness score (QEDs), is NP-hard due to the vast combinatorial design space of discrete molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi , Hang Hu , Anguang Hu , Hsu Kiang Ooi

In this study we want to connect our previously proposed context-relevant topographical maps with the deep learning community. Our architecture is a classifier with hidden layers that are hierarchical two-dimensional topographical maps.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Thomas Trappenberg , Paul Hollensen , Pitoyo Hartono

Conventional magneto-static finite element analysis of electrical machine design is time-consuming and computationally expensive. Since each machine topology has a distinct set of parameters, design optimization is commonly performed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Vivek Parekh , Dominik Flore , Sebastian Schöps

Dimension Estimation (DE) and Dimension Reduction (DR) are two closely related topics, but with quite different goals. In DE, one attempts to estimate the intrinsic dimensionality or number of latent variables in a set of measurements of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Nitish Bahadur , Randy Paffenroth

Let $T$ be a torus of dimension $n>1$ and $M$ a compact $T-$manifold. $M$ is a GKM manifold if the set of zero dimensional orbits in the orbit space $M/T$ is zero dimensional and the set of one dimensional orbits in $M/T$ is one…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Guillemin , Tara Holm , Catalin Zara

This paper presents an infinite variational autoencoder (VAE) whose capacity adapts to suit the input data. This is achieved using a mixture model where the mixing coefficients are modeled by a Dirichlet process, allowing us to integrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ehsan Abbasnejad , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

Formal verification provides a powerful framework for proving that dynamical systems satisfy their specifications. However, these techniques face scalability challenges in high-dimensional settings, as they often rely on state-space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Robert Reed , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian