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Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models (e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Feng Yuan

Despite the empirical success of Diffusion Models (DMs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), their generalization performance remains theoretically underexplored, especially lacking a full consideration of the shared encoder-generator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qi Chen , Jierui Zhu , Florian Shkurti

We propose a framework called HyperVAE for encoding distributions of distributions. When a target distribution is modeled by a VAE, its neural network parameters \theta is drawn from a distribution p(\theta) which is modeled by a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-16 Phuoc Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Hieu-Chi Dam , Svetha Venkatesh

Approximating distributions over complicated manifolds, such as natural images, are conceptually attractive. The deep latent variable model, trained using variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, is now a key technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

Tokenizers are a crucial component of latent diffusion models, as they define the latent space in which diffusion models operate. However, existing tokenizers are primarily designed to improve reconstruction fidelity or inherit pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhengrong Yue , Taihang Hu , Mengting Chen , Haiyu Zhang , Zihao Pan , Tao Liu , Zikang Wang , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng , Yali Wang

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) provide an effective and simple method for modeling complex distributions. However, training VAEs often requires considerable hyperparameter tuning to determine the optimal amount of information retained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Oleh Rybkin , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the dominant framework for high-fidelity and efficient image generation, owing to their ability to learn diffusion processes in compact latent spaces. However, while previous research has focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Qifan Li , Xingyu Zhou , Jinhua Zhang , Weiyi You , Shuhang Gu

Among likelihood-based approaches for deep generative modelling, variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer scalable amortized posterior inference and fast sampling. However, VAEs are also more and more outperformed by competing models such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Antoine Wehenkel , Gilles Louppe

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are probabilistic deep generative models underpinned by elegant theory, stable training processes, and meaningful manifold representations. However, they produce blurry images due to a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Prashnna K Gyawali , Rudra Saha , Linwei Wang , VSR Veeravasarapu , Maneesh Singh

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) enjoy an intuitive connection to manifold learning: in training the decoder/generator is optimized to approximate a homeomorphism between the data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Henry Li , Ofir Lindenbaum , Xiuyuan Cheng , Alexander Cloninger

Separating shared and independent features is crucial for multi-phase contrast-enhanced (CE) MRI synthesis. However, existing methods use deep autoencoder generators with low parameter efficiency and lack interpretable training strategies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xiaoyan Kui , Qianmu Xiao , Qqinsong Li , Zexin Ji , JIelin Zhang , Beiji Zou

We explore the use of Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) models for large scale image generation. To this end, we scale and enhance the autoregressive priors used in VQ-VAE to generate synthetic samples of much higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ali Razavi , Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals

Multi-View Clustering (MVC) has gained significant attention for its ability to leverage complementary information across diverse views. However, existing deep MVC methods often struggle with view-distribution entanglement during cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xin Zou , Ruimeng Liu , Chang Tang , Zhenglai Li , Xinwang Liu , Kunlun He , Wanqing Li

Video variational autoencoders (VAEs) used in latent diffusion models typically require a sufficiently large number of latent channels to ensure high-quality video reconstruction. However, recent studies have revealed that an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiarui Guan , Wenshuai Zhao , Zhengtao Zou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

In recent years Variation Autoencoders have become one of the most popular unsupervised learning of complicated distributions.Variational Autoencoder (VAE) provides more efficient reconstructive performance over a traditional autoencoder.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Gautam Ramachandra

Data augmentation effectively addresses the imbalanced-small sample data (ISSD) problem in hyperspectral image classification (HSIC). While most methodologies extend features in the latent space, few leverage text-driven generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yimin Zhu , Lincoln Linlin Xu

The generation of discontinuous distributions is a difficult task for most known frameworks such as generative autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Generative non-invertible models are unable to accurately generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mariia Drozdova , Vitaliy Kinakh , Guillaume Quétant , Tobias Golling , Slava Voloshynovskiy

A key advance in learning generative models is the use of amortized inference distributions that are jointly trained with the models. We find that existing training objectives for variational autoencoders can lead to inaccurate amortized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Shengjia Zhao , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

This paper proposes Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder (DirVAE) using a Dirichlet prior for a continuous latent variable that exhibits the characteristic of the categorical probabilities. To infer the parameters of DirVAE, we utilize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Weonyoung Joo , Wonsung Lee , Sungrae Park , Il-Chul Moon