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Being one of the most popular generative framework, variational autoencoders(VAE) are known to suffer from a phenomenon termed posterior collapse, i.e. the latent variational distributions collapse to the prior, especially when a strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Renfei Tu , Yang Liu , Yongzeng Xue , Cheng Wang , Maozu Guo

Semi-supervised learning is attracting increasing attention due to the fact that datasets of many domains lack enough labeled data. Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE), in particular, has demonstrated the benefits of semi-supervised learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yang Li , Quan Pan , Suhang Wang , Haiyun Peng , Tao Yang , Erik Cambria

Clustering using deep neural network models have been extensively studied in recent years. Among the most popular frameworks are the VAE and GAN frameworks, which learns latent feature representations of data through encoder / decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Adam Lindhe , Carl Ringqvist , Henrik Hult

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

Gaussian processes (GPs), implemented through multivariate Gaussian distributions for a finite collection of data, are the most popular approach in small-area spatial statistical modelling. In this context they are used to encode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Elizaveta Semenova , Yidan Xu , Adam Howes , Theo Rashid , Samir Bhatt , Swapnil Mishra , Seth Flaxman

This study presents a comparative evaluation of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) enhanced with Minimum Description Length (MDL) regularization against a Standard Autoencoder for reconstructing high-dimensional gynecological data. The MDL-VAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Paula Santos

Deformable medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. While deep learning-based methods have demonstrated superior accuracy and computational efficiency compared to traditional techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ahsan Raza Siyal , Markus Haltmeier , Ruth Steiger , Malik Galijasevic , Elke Ruth Gizewski , Astrid Ellen Grams

This paper reviews the novel concept of controllable variational autoencoder (ControlVAE), discusses its parameter tuning to meet application needs, derives its key analytic properties, and offers useful extensions and applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Huajie Shao , Zhisheng Xiao , Shuochao Yao , Aston Zhang , Shengzhong Liu , Tarek Abdelzaher

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

Dense vector retrieval is the practical backbone of Retrieval- Augmented Generation (RAG), but similarity search can suffer from precision limitations. Conversely, utility-based approaches leveraging LLM re-ranking often achieve superior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Rajinder Sandhu , Di Mu , Cheng Chang , Md Shahriar Tasjid , Himanshu Rai , Maksims Volkovs , Ga Wu

In this work, we introduce a novel approach to regularization in multivariable regression problems. Our regularizer, called DLoss, penalises differences between the model's derivatives and derivatives of the data generating function as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Enrico Lopedoto , Maksim Shekhunov , Vitaly Aksenov , Kizito Salako , Tillman Weyde

We propose Tree Variational Autoencoder (TreeVAE), a new generative hierarchical clustering model that learns a flexible tree-based posterior distribution over latent variables. TreeVAE hierarchically divides samples according to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Julia Vogt

We introduce Exemplar VAEs, a family of generative models that bridge the gap between parametric and non-parametric, exemplar based generative models. Exemplar VAE is a variant of VAE with a non-parametric prior in the latent space based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Sajad Norouzi , David J. Fleet , Mohammad Norouzi

Recent advances in diffusion transformers (DiTs) have enabled promising single-turn image editing capabilities. However, multi-turn editing often leads to progressive semantic drift and quality degradation.In this work, we study this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiaoce Wang , Sifan Zhou , Kaifei Wang , Leli Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Tao He , Ming Li

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

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

Learning interpretable latent representations from tabular data remains a challenge in deep generative modeling. We introduce SE-VAE (Structural Equation-Variational Autoencoder), a novel architecture that embeds measurement structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ruiyu Zhang , Ce Zhao , Xin Zhao , Lin Nie , Wai-Fung Lam

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is known to suffer from the phenomenon of \textit{posterior collapse}, where the latent representations generated by the model become independent of the inputs. This leads to degenerated representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Fotios Lygerakis , Elmar Rueckert

Traditional image processing methods employing partial differential equations (PDEs) offer a multitude of meaningful regularizers, along with valuable theoretical foundations for a wide range of image-related tasks. This makes their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chaoyu Liu , Zhonghua Qiao , Chao Li , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We present two deep generative models based on Variational Autoencoders to improve the accuracy of drug response prediction. Our models, Perturbation Variational Autoencoder and its semi-supervised extension, Drug Response Variational…

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