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Current state-of-the-art generative approaches frequently rely on a two-stage training procedure, where an autoencoder (often a VAE) first performs dimensionality reduction, followed by training a generative model on the learned latent…

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Is there really much more to say about sparse autoencoders (SAEs)? Autoencoders in general, and SAEs in particular, represent deep architectures that are capable of modeling low-dimensional latent structure in data. Such structure could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yin Lu , Xuening Zhu , Tong He , David Wipf

Latent traversal is a popular approach to visualize the disentangled latent representations. Given a bunch of variations in a single unit of the latent representation, it is expected that there is a change in a single factor of variation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xinqi Zhu , Chang Xu , Dacheng Tao

In just three years, Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as one of the most popular approaches to unsupervised learning of complicated distributions. VAEs are appealing because they are built on top of standard function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Carl Doersch

Deep latent variable models (DLVMs) are designed to learn meaningful representations in an unsupervised manner, such that the hidden explanatory factors are interpretable by independent latent variables (aka disentanglement). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Surojit Saha , Sarang Joshi , Ross Whitaker

We introduce an improved variational autoencoder (VAE) for text modeling with topic information explicitly modeled as a Dirichlet latent variable. By providing the proposed model topic awareness, it is more superior at reconstructing input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yijun Xiao , Tiancheng Zhao , William Yang Wang

A fully disentangled variational auto-encoder (VAE) aims to identify disentangled latent components from observations. However, enforcing full independence between all latent components may be too strict for certain datasets. In some cases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chengrui Li , Yunmiao Wang , Yule Wang , Weihan Li , Dieter Jaeger , Anqi Wu

Variational autoencoders learn unsupervised data representations, but these models frequently converge to minima that fail to preserve meaningful semantic information. For example, variational autoencoders with autoregressive decoders often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Bryan Seybold , Emily Fertig , Alex Alemi , Ian Fischer

We present a Split Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (SVQ-VAE) architecture using a split vector quantizer for NTTS, as an enhancement to the well-known Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Marek Strong , Jonas Rohnke , Antonio Bonafonte , Mateusz Łajszczak , Trevor Wood

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

Tools to generate high quality synthetic speech signal that is perceptually indistinguishable from speech recorded from human speakers are easily available. Several approaches have been proposed for detecting synthetic speech. Many of these…

Integrating compositional and symbolic properties into current distributional semantic spaces can enhance the interpretability, controllability, compositionality, and generalisation capabilities of Transformer-based auto-regressive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yingji Zhang , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

The manifold hypothesis states that high-dimensional data can be modeled as lying on or near a low-dimensional, nonlinear manifold. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) approximate this manifold by learning mappings from low-dimensional latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-03 Marissa C. Connor , Gregory H. Canal , Christopher J. Rozell

Fair and unbiased machine learning is an important and active field of research, as decision processes are increasingly driven by models that learn from data. Unfortunately, any biases present in the data may be learned by the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

The Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) enhances the flexibility of the data stream method in exploiting unlabeled samples. Nonetheless, the feasibility of DAE for data stream analytic deserves an in-depth study because it characterizes a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Andri Ashfahani , Mahardhika Pratama , Edwin Lughofer , Yew Soon Ong

Disentangled and interpretable latent representations in generative models typically come at the cost of generation quality. The $\beta$-VAE framework introduces a hyperparameter $\beta$ to balance disentanglement and reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Anshuk Uppal , Yuhta Takida , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuki Mitsufuji

Disentangling the encodings of neural models is a fundamental aspect for improving interpretability, semantic control and downstream task performance in Natural Language Processing. Currently, most disentanglement methods are unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Danilo S. Carvalho , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Yingji Zhang , Andre Freitas

Traditional Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are constrained by the limitations of the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) formulation, particularly when utilizing simplistic, non-analytic, or unknown prior distributions. These limitations inhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Fotios Lygerakis , Elmar Rueckert

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are a popular class of deep generative models with many variants and a wide range of applications. Improvements upon the standard VAE mostly focus on the modelling of the posterior distribution over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 James Langley , Miguel Monteiro , Charles Jones , Nick Pawlowski , Ben Glocker

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