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Recent advances in generative AI offer promising solutions for synthetic data generation but often rely on large datasets for effective training. To address this limitation, we propose a novel generative model that learns from limited data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Michail Spitieris , Massimiliano Ruocco , Abdulmajid Murad , Alessandro Nocente

We investigate a variant of variational autoencoders where there is a superstructure of discrete latent variables on top of the latent features. In general, our superstructure is a tree structure of multiple super latent variables and it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Xiaopeng Li , Zhourong Chen , Leonard K. M. Poon , Nevin L. Zhang

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) aims to compress pixel data into low-dimensional latent space, playing an important role in OpenAI's Sora and other latent video diffusion generation models. While most of existing video VAEs inflate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pingyu Wu , Kai Zhu , Yu Liu , Liming Zhao , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Variational autoencoder (VAE) neural networks can be trained to generate power system states that capture both marginal distribution and multivariate dependencies of historical data. The coordinates of the latent space codes of VAEs have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Chenguang Wang , Ensieh Sharifnia , Simon H. Tindemans , Peter Palensky

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) with global priors trained under an imbalanced empirical class distribution can lead to underrepresentation of tail classes in the latent space. While $t^3$VAE improves robustness via heavy-tailed Student's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aymene Mohammed Bouayed , Samuel Deslauriers-Gauthier , Adrian Iaccovelli , David Naccache

Generating synthetic tabular data under severe class imbalance is essential for domains where rare but high-impact events drive decision-making. However, most generative models either overlook minority groups or fail to produce samples that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Milosh Devic , Jordan Gierschendorf , David Garson

Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, decoding a random latent vector from the prior usually does not produce meaningful data, at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alejandro Ascarate , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

As deep Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) frameworks become more widely used for modeling biomolecular simulation data, we emphasize the capability of the VAE architecture to concurrently maximize the timescale of the latent space while…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Hannah K. Wayment-Steele , Vijay S. Pande

Aerosol-cloud--radiation interactions remain among the most uncertain components of the Earth's climate system, in partdue to the high dimensionality of aerosol state representations and the difficulty of obtaining complete \textit{in situ}…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Ehsan Saleh , Saba Ghaffari , Jeffrey H. Curtis , Lekha Patel , Peter A. Bosler , Nicole Riemer , Matthew West

Variational autoencoders (VAE) represent a popular, flexible form of deep generative model that can be stochastically fit to samples from a given random process using an information-theoretic variational bound on the true underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Bin Dai , Yu Wang , John Aston , Gang Hua , David Wipf

We address the problem of one-to-many mappings in supervised learning, where a single instance has many different solutions of possibly equal cost. The framework of conditional variational autoencoders describes a class of methods to tackle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-11 Alexej Klushyn , Nutan Chen , Botond Cseke , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds. We redevelop the VAE framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrew Gracyk

VAEs (Variational AutoEncoders) have proved to be powerful in the context of density modeling and have been used in a variety of contexts for creative purposes. In many settings, the data we model possesses continuous attributes that we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Frank Nielsen , François Pachet

Understanding the details of small-scale convection and storm formation is crucial to accurately represent the larger-scale planetary dynamics. Presently, atmospheric scientists run high-resolution, storm-resolving simulations to capture…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Harshini Mangipudi , Griffin Mooers , Mike Pritchard , Tom Beucler , Stephan Mandt

Bayesian optimisation in the latent space of a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) is a powerful framework for optimisation tasks over complex structured domains, such as the space of scientifically interesting molecules. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Henry B. Moss , Sebastian W. Ober , Tom Diethe

The CVAE is one of the most widely-used models in trajectory prediction for AD. It captures the interplay between a driving context and its ground-truth future into a probabilistic latent space and uses it to produce predictions. In this…

This paper presents an emotion-regularized conditional variational autoencoder (Emo-CVAE) model for generating emotional conversation responses. In conventional CVAE-based emotional response generation, emotion labels are simply used as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhen-Hua Ling

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models for learning latent representations. Standard VAEs generate dispersed and unstructured latent spaces by utilizing all dimensions, which limits their interpretability, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Farshad Sangari Abiz , Reshad Hosseini , Babak N. Araabi

For planning of power systems and for the calibration of operational tools, it is essential to analyse system performance in a large range of representative scenarios. When the available historical data is limited, generative models are a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Chenguang Wang , Ensieh Sharifnia , Zhi Gao , Simon H. Tindemans , Peter Palensky

Predicting customers' long-term revenue from sparse and irregular transaction data is central to marketing resource allocation in non-contractual settings, yet existing approaches face a trade-off. Traditional probabilistic customer base…

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