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Autoencoders are a powerful and versatile tool often used for various problems such as anomaly detection, image processing and machine translation. However, their reconstructions are not always trivial to explain. Therefore, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Kenyu Kobayashi , Renata Khasanova , Arno Schneuwly , Felix Schmidt , Matteo Casserini

Quantum Tanner codes are a recently developed family of quantum error-correcting codes characterized by favorable asymptotic performance characteristics. Despite their theoretical potential, practical decoding algorithms that effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhuo-Yan Xiao , Sha Shi , Chen-Peng Huang , Dong-Sheng Wang , Yun-Jiang Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) play an increasingly important role in machine learning. However, there is one fundamental issue hindering their practical applications: the absence of capability for encoding real-world samples. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jiapeng Zhu , Deli Zhao , Bo Zhang , Bolei Zhou

Codebook collapse is a common problem in training deep generative models with discrete representation spaces like Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAEs). We observe that the same problem arises for the alternatively designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Gulcin Baykal , Melih Kandemir , Gozde Unal

Autoencoders are certainly among the most studied and used Deep Learning models: the idea behind them is to train a model in order to reconstruct the same input data. The peculiarity of these models is to compress the information through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Gabriele Martino , Davide Moroni , Massimo Martinelli

Deep Learning (DL) is a two-step classification model that consists feature learning, generating feature representations using unsupervised ways and the supervised learning stage at the last step of model using at least two hidden layers on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Gokhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu

We revisit Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis (Deep LDA) from a likelihood-based perspective. While classical LDA is a simple Gaussian model with linear decision boundaries, attaching an LDA head to a neural encoder raises the question of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Maxat Tezekbayev , Arman Bolatov , Zhenisbek Assylbekov

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) learn representations of data by jointly training a probabilistic encoder and decoder network. Typically these models encode all features of the data into a single variable. Here we are interested in learning…

Deep learning models struggle with compositional generalization, i.e. the ability to recognize or generate novel combinations of observed elementary concepts. In hopes of enabling compositional generalization, various unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Zhenlin Xu , Marc Niethammer , Colin Raffel

Denoising autoencoders (DAEs) are powerful deep learning models used for feature extraction, data generation and network pre-training. DAEs consist of an encoder and decoder which may be trained simultaneously to minimise a loss (function)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Antonia Creswell , Kai Arulkumaran , Anil A. Bharath

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

With the mass construction of Gen III nuclear reactors, it is a popular trend to use deep learning (DL) techniques for fast and effective diagnosis of possible accidents. To overcome the common problems of previous work in diagnosing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Chengyuan Li , Zhifang Qiu , Zhangrui Yan , Meifu Li

Autoencoders are a deep learning model for representation learning. When trained to minimize the distance between the data and its reconstruction, linear autoencoders (LAEs) learn the subspace spanned by the top principal directions but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Daniel Kunin , Jonathan M. Bloom , Aleksandrina Goeva , Cotton Seed

Masked auto-encoder pre-training has emerged as a prevalent technique for initializing and enhancing dense retrieval systems. It generally utilizes additional Transformer decoder blocks to provide sustainable supervision signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Guangyuan Ma , Xing Wu , Zijia Lin , Songlin Hu

The "end-to-end" label for LLMs is a misnomer. In practice, they depend on a non-differentiable decoding process that requires laborious, hand-tuning of hyperparameters like temperature and top-p. This paper introduces AutoDeco, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhichao Wang , Dongyang Ma , Xinting Huang , Deng Cai , Tian Lan , Jiahao Xu , Haitao Mi , Xiaoying Tang , Yan Wang

We present a new flavor of Variational Autoencoder (VAE) that interpolates seamlessly between unsupervised, semi-supervised and fully supervised learning domains. We show that unlabeled datapoints not only boost unsupervised tasks, but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Felix Berkhahn , Richard Keys , Wajih Ouertani , Nikhil Shetty , Dominik Geißler

The ability to extract generative parameters from high-dimensional fields of data in an unsupervised manner is a highly desirable yet unrealized goal in computational physics. This work explores the use of variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Christian Jacobsen , Karthik Duraisamy

Deep regression networks are widely used to tackle the problem of predicting a continuous value for a given input. Task-specialized approaches for training regression networks have shown significant improvement over generic approaches, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Deval Shah , Tor M. Aamodt

End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems face challenges in lifelong learning, including catastrophic forgetting, difficulty in knowledge transfer across diverse scenarios, and spurious correlations between unobservable confounders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiayuan Du , Yuebing Song , Yiming Zhao , Xianghui Pan , Jiawei Lian , Yuchu Lu , Liuyi Wang , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often produce overconfident out-of-distribution predictions, motivating Bayesian uncertainty quantification. The Linearized Laplace Approximation (LLA) achieves this by linearizing the DNN and applying Laplace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Pedro Jiménez , Luis A. Ortega , Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Daniel Hernández-Lobato