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Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been highly successful at imputing and acquiring heterogeneous missing data. However, within this specific application domain, existing VAE methods are restricted by using only one layer of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ignacio Peis , Chao Ma , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image restoration often faces computational bottlenecks and information loss due to its extremely high resolution. Existing studies based on Variational Autoencoders (VAE) improve efficiency by transferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yidi Liu , Dong Li , Yuxin Ma , Jie Huang , Wenlong Zhang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-jun Zha

We propose a new paradigm for designing efficient p-adaptive arbitrary high order methods. We consider arbitrary high order iterative schemes that gain one order of accuracy at each iteration and we modify them in order to match the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Lorenzo Micalizzi , Davide Torlo , Walter Boscheri

One major challenge of disentanglement learning with variational autoencoders is the trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction fidelity. Previous studies, which increase the information bottleneck during training, tend to lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo , Xiang Yang , Muhammad Awais , Sara Atito , Xingshen Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiang Yang

We propose Iterative Homography Network, namely IHN, a new deep homography estimation architecture. Different from previous works that achieve iterative refinement by network cascading or untrainable IC-LK iterator, the iterator of IHN has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Si-Yuan Cao , Jianxin Hu , Zehua Sheng , Hui-Liang Shen

This paper aims to develop an acoustic signal-based unsupervised anomaly detection method for automatic machine monitoring. Existing approaches such as deep autoencoder (DAE), variational autoencoder (VAE), conditional variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Harsh Purohit , Takashi Endo , Masaaki Yamamoto , Yohei Kawaguchi

Deep generative models have achieved great success in unsupervised learning with the ability to capture complex nonlinear relationships between latent generating factors and observations. Among them, a factorized hierarchical variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-18 Wei-Ning Hsu , James Glass

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are fundamental for generative modeling and image reconstruction, yet their performance often struggles to maintain high fidelity in reconstructions. This study introduces a hybrid model, quantum variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Farina Riaz , Fakhar Zaman , Hajime Suzuki , Sharif Abuadbba , David Nguyen

Irregularly sampled time series commonly occur in several domains where they present a significant challenge to standard deep learning models. In this paper, we propose a new deep learning framework for probabilistic interpolation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Satya Narayan Shukla , Benjamin M. Marlin

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is a probabilistic machine learning framework for posterior inference that projects an input set of high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional, latent space. The latent space learned with a VAE offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rafael Pastrana

Variational autoencoder (VAE) has widely been utilized for modeling data distributions because it is theoretically elegant, easy to train, and has nice manifold representations. However, when applied to image reconstruction and synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Dooseop Choi , KyoungWook Min

Recently, Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have demonstrated strong performance in multilingual speech recognition. However, the decoder's autoregressive nature and large size introduce significant bottlenecks during inference.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Yunkyu Lim , Jihwan Park , Hyung Yong Kim , Hanbin Lee , Byeong-Yeol Kim

As one of the most popular generative models, Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approximates the posterior of latent variables based on amortized variational inference. However, when the decoder network is sufficiently expressive, VAE may lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dazhong Shen , Chuan Qin , Chao Wang , Hengshu Zhu , Enhong Chen , Hui Xiong

We propose a flipped-Adversarial AutoEncoder (FAAE) that simultaneously trains a generative model G that maps an arbitrary latent code distribution to a data distribution and an encoder E that embodies an "inverse mapping" that encodes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Jiyi Zhang , Hung Dang , Hwee Kuan Lee , Ee-Chien Chang

In this article we introduce the notion of Split Variational Autoencoder (SVAE), whose output $\hat{x}$ is obtained as a weighted sum $\sigma \odot \hat{x_1} + (1-\sigma) \odot \hat{x_2}$ of two generated images $\hat{x_1},\hat{x_2}$, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Andrea Asperti , Laura Bugo , Daniele Filippini

Hybrid beamforming has been widely employed in mmWave communications such as vehicular-to-everything (V2X) scenarios, as a compromise between hardware complexity and spectral efficiency. However, the inherent coupling between analog and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Jiazhe Li , Nicolò Decarli , Francesco Guidi , Heng Dong , Anna Guerra , Alessandro Bazzi , Zhuoming Li

Normalizing flows, autoregressive models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep energy-based models are among competing likelihood-based frameworks for deep generative learning. Among them, VAEs have the advantage of fast and tractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-11 Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have become very popular techniques to perform inference and learning in latent variable models as they allow us to leverage the rich representational power of neural networks to obtain flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Anthony L. Caterini , Arnaud Doucet , Dino Sejdinovic

Variational Autoencoders (VAE) and their variants have been widely used in a variety of applications, such as dialog generation, image generation and disentangled representation learning. However, the existing VAE models have some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Huajie Shao , Shuochao Yao , Dachun Sun , Aston Zhang , Shengzhong Liu , Dongxin Liu , Jun Wang , Tarek Abdelzaher

Latent diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, yet their inference remains costly and time-consuming. As diffusion transformers become increasingly efficient, the latency bottleneck inevitably shifts to VAE decoders. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Lunjie Zhu , Yushi Huang , Xingtong Ge , Yufei Xue , Zhening Liu , Yumeng Zhang , Zehong Lin , Jun Zhang