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Deep generative models have demonstrated successful applications in learning non-linear data distributions through a number of latent variables and these models use a nonlinear function (generator) to map latent samples into the data space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

Among the wide variety of image generative models, two models stand out: Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). GANs can produce realistic images, but they suffer from mode collapse and do not provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is one of the most common techniques in the field of medical image generation, where this architecture has shown advanced researchers in recent years and has developed into various architectures. VAE has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Khadija Rais , Mohamed Amroune , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Mohamed Yassine Haouam

Diffusion models may be viewed as hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) with two improvements: parameter sharing for the conditional distributions in the generative process and efficient computation of the loss as independent terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Beatrix M. G. Nielsen , Anders Christensen , Andrea Dittadi , Ole Winther

Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are generative models based on discrete latent representations of the data, where inputs are mapped to a finite set of learned embeddings.To generate new samples, an autoregressive prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-04 Max Cohen , Guillaume Quispe , Sylvain Le Corff , Charles Ollion , Eric Moulines

As a class of fruitful approaches, diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown excellent advantages in high-resolution image reconstruction. On the other hand, masked autoencoders (MAEs), as popular self-supervised vision learners,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zhiyuan Ma , zhihuan yu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

3D molecule generation is crucial for drug discovery and material science, requiring models to process complex multi-modalities, including atom types, chemical bonds, and 3D coordinates. A key challenge is integrating these modalities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanchen Luo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yi Zhao , Sihang Li , Hengxing Cai , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua , Yang Zhang , Xiang Wang

Reliable fault detection is an essential requirement for safe and efficient operation of complex mechanical systems in various industrial applications. Despite the abundance of existing approaches and the maturity of the fault detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Tianfu Li , Chuang Sun , Ruqiang Yan , Xuefeng Chen

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the dominant paradigm for many generation tasks including audio generation such as text-to-audio, text-to-music and text-to-speech. A key component of latent diffusion is an autoencoder (VAE) that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Prem Seetharaman , Rithesh Kumar

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) enable high-fidelity synthesis by operating in learned latent spaces. However, training state-of-the-art LDMs requires complex staging: a tokenizer must be trained first, before the diffusion model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shivam Duggal , Xingjian Bai , Zongze Wu , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola , William T. Freeman

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shilong Zhang , He Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Shuchen Xue , Shaoteng Liu , Mengwei Ren , Soo Ye Kim , Yuqian Zhou , Qing Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Kai Zhang , Zhe Lin , Ping Luo

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) aims to compress pixel data into low-dimensional latent space, playing an important role in OpenAI's Sora and other latent video diffusion generation models. While most of existing video VAEs inflate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pingyu Wu , Kai Zhu , Yu Liu , Liming Zhao , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Although variational autoencoders (VAEs) represent a widely influential deep generative model, many aspects of the underlying energy function remain poorly understood. In particular, it is commonly believed that Gaussian encoder/decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Bin Dai , David Wipf

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an inexpensive and widely available tool for cardiac assessment. Despite its standardized format and small file size, the high complexity and inter-individual variability of ECG signals (typically a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Christopher Harvey , Sumaiya Shomaji , Zijun Yao , Amit Noheria

Ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based diffusion models enable deterministic image synthesis, establishing a reversible mapping suitable for generative steganography. While prevailing methods strictly adhere to a standard normal prior,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yuhua Xu , Wei Sun , Chengpei Tang , Jiaxing Lu , Jingying Zhou , Chen Gu

Distributed learning and Edge AI necessitate efficient data processing, low-latency communication, decentralized model training, and stringent data privacy to facilitate real-time intelligence on edge devices while reducing dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lucas Heublein , Simon Kocher , Tobias Feigl , Alexander Rügamer , Christopher Mutschler , Felix Ott

Autoregressive models are structurally misaligned with the inherently parallel nature of geospatial understanding, forcing a rigid sequential narrative onto scenes and fundamentally hindering the generation of structured and coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiaqi Liu , Ronghao Fu , Haoran Liu , Lang Sun , Bo Yang

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

Disentangled learning representations have promising utility in many applications, but they currently suffer from serious reliability issues. We present Gaussian Channel Autoencoder (GCAE), a method which achieves reliable disentanglement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Eric Yeats , Frank Liu , Hai Li