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This paper introduces a novel generative model for discrete distributions based on continuous normalizing flows on the submanifold of factorizing discrete measures. Integration of the flow gradually assigns categories and avoids issues of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Bastian Boll , Daniel Gonzalez-Alvarado , Christoph Schnörr

It can be difficult to tell whether a trained generative model has learned to generate novel examples or has simply memorized a specific set of outputs. In published work, it is common to attempt to address this visually, for example by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Matt Feiszli

We propose a manifold matching approach to generative models which includes a distribution generator (or data generator) and a metric generator. In our framework, we view the real data set as some manifold embedded in a high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang

Dimensionality reduction is critical across various domains of science including neuroscience. Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PPCA) is a prominent dimensionality reduction method that provides a probabilistic approach unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Han-Lin Hsieh , Maryam M. Shanechi

Modern generative modeling methods have demonstrated strong performance in learning complex data distributions from clean samples. In many scientific and imaging applications, however, clean samples are unavailable, and only noisy or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Willem Diepeveen , Oscar Leong

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) have proven to be a well suited tool for performing dimensionality reduction by extracting latent variables lying in a potentially much smaller dimensional space than the data. Their ability to capture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Clément Chadebec , Clément Mantoux , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Deep Generative Models are frequently used to learn continuous representations of complex data distributions using a finite number of samples. For any generative model, including pre-trained foundation models with Diffusion or Transformer…

Extracting meaningful information from high-dimensional data poses a formidable modeling challenge, particularly when the data is obscured by noise or represented through different modalities. This research proposes a novel non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Navid Ziaei , Behzad Nazari , Uri T. Eden , Alik Widge , Ali Yousefi

Euclidean representations distort data with intrinsic non-Euclidean structure. While Riemannian representation learning offers a solution by embedding data onto matching manifolds, it typically relies on an encoder to estimate densities on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Andreas Bjerregaard , Søren Hauberg , Anders Krogh

By sampling from the latent space of an autoencoder and decoding the latent space samples to the original data space, any autoencoder can simply be turned into a generative model. For this to work, it is necessary to model the autoencoder's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Maximilian Coblenz , Oliver Grothe , Fabian Kächele

Most models of generative AI for images assume that images are inherently low-dimensional objects embedded within a high-dimensional space. Additionally, it is often implicitly assumed that thematic image datasets form smooth or piecewise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Leah Bar , Liron Mor Yosef , Shai Zucker , Neta Shoham , Inbar Seroussi , Nir Sochen

Generative neural networks have a well recognized ability to estimate underlying manifold structure of high dimensional data. However, if a single latent space is used, it is not possible to faithfully represent a manifold with topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jakob Stolberg-Larsen , Stefan Sommer

Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset, with diffusion models recently becoming the most popular generative model. One of the main challenges of diffusion models is solving the problem in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Wonjun Lee , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Dongmian Zou , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) are fundamental methods in machine learning for dimensionality reduction. The former is a technique for finding this approximation in finite dimensions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Søren Hauberg , Baba C. Vemuri

We consider the problem of efficiently approximating and encoding high-dimensional data sampled from a probability distribution $\rho$ in $\mathbb{R}^D$, that is nearly supported on a $d$-dimensional set $\mathcal{M}$ - for example…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-19 Wenjing Liao , Mauro Maggioni

The commonly used latent space embedding techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, and manifold learning techniques, are typically used for learning effective representations of homogeneous data. However, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yasin Yilmaz , Mehmet Aktukmak , Alfred O. Hero

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and its variations are classic generative models by learning a low-dimensional latent representation to satisfy some prior distribution (e.g., Gaussian distribution). Their advantages over GAN are that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Cong Geng , Jia Wang , Li Chen , Zhiyong Gao

Generative methods have recently seen significant improvements by generating in a lower-dimensional latent representation of the data. However, many of the generative methods applied in the latent space remain complex and difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alona Levy-Jurgenson , Zohar Yakhini

The problem of identifying geometric structure in data is a cornerstone of (unsupervised) learning. As a result, Geometric Representation Learning has been widely applied across scientific and engineering domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Imran Nasim , Melanie Weber

In this paper, we propose a method to learn a minimizing geodesic within a data manifold. Along the learned geodesic, our method can generate high-quality interpolations between two given data samples. Specifically, we use an autoencoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Cong Geng , Jia Wang , Li Chen , Wenbo Bao , Chu Chu , Zhiyong Gao