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Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful deep generative models widely used to represent high-dimensional complex data through a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model, the input data…

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Although deep generative models have gained a lot of attention, most of the existing works are designed for unimodal generation. In this paper, we explore a new method for unconditional image-text pair generation. We design Multimodal…

In recent years, neural network based methods have been proposed as a method that cangenerate representations from music, but they are not human readable and hardly analyzable oreditable by a human. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

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…

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A variational autoencoder (VAE) derived from Tsallis statistics called q-VAE is proposed. In the proposed method, a standard VAE is employed to statistically extract latent space hidden in sampled data, and this latent space helps make…

Learning a robust Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a fundamental step for many deep learning applications in medical image analysis, such as MRI synthesizes. Existing brain VAEs predominantly focus on single-modality data (i.e., T1-weighted…

In this paper, we introduce the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to an end-to-end speech synthesis model, to learn the latent representation of speaking styles in an unsupervised manner. The style representation learned through VAE shows good…