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In variational autoencoders (VAEs), the variational posterior often collapses to the prior, known as posterior collapse, which leads to poor representation learning quality. An adjustable hyperparameter beta has been introduced in VAEs to…

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Estimation of uncertainty in deep learning models is of vital importance, especially in medical imaging, where reliance on inference without taking into account uncertainty could lead to misdiagnosis. Recently, the probabilistic Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Sergul Aydore , Richard M. Leahy

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a flexible and scalable framework for non-linear dimensionality reduction. However, in application domains such as genomics where data sets are typically tabular and high-dimensional, a black-box…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Kaspar Märtens , Christopher Yau

Existing video Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) generally overlook the similarity between frame contents, leading to redundant latent modeling. In this paper, we propose decoupled VAE (DeCo-VAE) to achieve compact latent representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiangchen Yin , Jiahui Yuan , Zhangchi Hu , Wenzhang Sun , Jie Chen , Xiaozhen Qiao , Hao Li , Xiaoyan Sun

The increasing efficiency and compactness of deep learning architectures, together with hardware improvements, have enabled the complex and high-dimensional modelling of medical volumetric data at higher resolutions. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , Thomas Varsavsky , Richard Shaw , Mark Graham , Parashkev Nachev , Sebastien Ourselin , Carole H. Sudre , M. Jorge Cardoso

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 G. Maragkopoulos , A. Mandilara , A. Tsili , D. Syvridis

Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) has become a fundamental framework for learning discrete representations in image modeling. However, VQ-VAE models must tokenize entire images using a finite set of codebook vectors, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jaeyung Kim , YoungJoon Yoo

Uncovering emergent concepts across transformer layers remains a significant challenge because the residual stream linearly mixes and duplicates information, obscuring how features evolve within large language models. Current research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ankur Garg , Xuemin Yu , Hassan Sajjad , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Disentangled representation learning aims to learn low-dimensional representations where each dimension corresponds to an underlying generative factor. While the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) is widely used for this purpose, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Di Fan , Yannian Kou , Chuanhou Gao

Despite progress in training neural networks for lossy image compression, current approaches fail to maintain both perceptual quality and abstract features at very low bitrates. Encouraged by recent success in learning discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Will Williams , Sam Ringer , Tom Ash , John Hughes , David MacLeod , Jamie Dougherty

Natural image modeling is a landmark challenge of unsupervised learning. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) learn a useful latent representation and model global structure well but have difficulty capturing small details. PixelCNN models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Ishaan Gulrajani , Kundan Kumar , Faruk Ahmed , Adrien Ali Taiga , Francesco Visin , David Vazquez , Aaron Courville

Latent generative models have emerged as a leading approach for high-quality image synthesis. These models rely on an autoencoder to compress images into a latent space, followed by a generative model to learn the latent distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theodoros Kouzelis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

PCA is a classical statistical technique whose simplicity and maturity has seen it find widespread use as an anomaly detection technique. However, it is limited in this regard by being sensitive to gross perturbations of the input, and by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Raghavendra Chalapathy , Aditya Krishna Menon , Sanjay Chawla

Variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a powerful unsupervised learning framework for image generation. One drawback of VAE is that it generates blurry images due to its Gaussianity assumption and thus L2 loss. To allow the generation of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Lei Cai , Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are one class of generative probabilistic latent-variable models designed for inference based on known data. They balance reconstruction and regularizer terms. A variational approximation produces an evidence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-13 Robert I. Cukier

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are essential tools in end-to-end representation learning. However, the sequential text generation common pitfall with VAEs is that the model tends to ignore latent variables with a strong auto-regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhao , Ping Yu , Suchismit Mahapatra , Qinliang Su , Changyou Chen

Classical methods for model order selection often fail in scenarios with low SNR or few snapshots. Deep learning-based methods are promising alternatives for such challenging situations as they compensate lack of information in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Michael Baur , Franz Weißer , Benedikt Böck , Wolfgang Utschick

In recent years, the task of video prediction-forecasting future video given past video frames-has attracted attention in the research community. In this paper we propose a novel approach to this problem with Vector Quantized Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Jacob Walker , Ali Razavi , Aäron van den Oord

Machine learning methods often need a large amount of labeled training data. Since the training data is assumed to be the ground truth, outliers can severely degrade learned representations and performance of trained models. Here we apply…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-24 Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Jian Li , Sergul Aydore , Richard M. Leahy

The surrogate loss of variational autoencoders (VAEs) poses various challenges to their training, inducing the imbalance between task fitting and representation inference. To avert this, the existing strategies for VAEs focus on adjusting…

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