In this paper we study generative modeling via autoencoders while using the elegant geometric properties of the optimal transport (OT) problem and the Wasserstein distances. We introduce Sliced-Wasserstein Autoencoders (SWAE), which are generative models that enable one to shape the distribution of the latent space int…
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In this paper, we describe the "implicit autoencoder" (IAE), a generative autoencoder in which both the generative path and the recognition path are parametrized by implicit distributions. We use two generative adversarial networks to define the reconstruction and the regularization cost functions of the implicit autoe…
New autoencoder framework learns structured latent priors.
problem Learning autoencoders with flexible priors.
method Relational regularization on latent prior, scalable algorithms.
result RAE outperforms existing autoencoders in image generation.
A new method for conditional sampling using paired Wasserstein Autoencoders.
problem Conditional sampling from complex data distributions.
method Derive a novel loss function for Wasserstein Autoencoders to enable sampling from OT-type couplings.
result Learned cost-optimal transport maps and conditional sampling from an OT-type coupling.
VCAE improves autoencoder quality on MNIST and CelebA.
problem Overfitting and poor generative/reconstruction quality in autoencoders.
method Proposes variance-constrained autoencoder (VCAE) to enforce variance constraint on latent distribution.
result VCAE outperforms Wasserstein Autoencoder and Variational Autoencoder in quality.
In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image generation task using an autoencoder by directly estimating the latent distribution. To…
Learning Nonparametric High-Dimensional Generative Models: The Empirical-Beta-Copula Autoencoderstat.ML
A new autoencoder method uses empirical beta copulas for generating data.
problem Creating a generative model from an autoencoder's latent space.
method Empirical Beta Copula Autoencoder method.
result The Empirical Beta Copula Autoencoder outperforms other methods in simplicity and effectiveness.
We focus on generative autoencoders, such as variational or adversarial autoencoders, which jointly learn a generative model alongside an inference model. Generative autoencoders are those which are trained to softly enforce a prior on the latent distribution learned by the inference model. We call the distribution to …
End-to-end Sinkhorn Autoencoder reduces data simulation time with noise generation.
problem Efficiently simulating data collection processes with high fidelity and speed.
method End-to-end Sinkhorn Autoencoder with noise generator.
result Outperforms competing methods on various datasets.
New distributions on manifolds for better sampling.
problem Creating flexible distributions on Riemannian manifolds.
method Area-preserving maps and isometries for constructing distributions.
result Flexibility and straightforward sampling of distributions.
Multi-domain translation seeks to learn a probabilistic coupling between marginal distributions that reflects the correspondence between different domains. We assume that data from different domains are generated from a shared latent representation based on a structural equation model. Under this assumption, we show th…
New model improves multimodal autoencoders by learning joint and conditional distributions.
problem Limitations in recent multimodal autoencoders restrict their quality on complex datasets.
method Proposes a multistage training process with variational inference and Normalizing Flows, leveraging shared modality information.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets.
Bayesian autoencoders improve OOD detection by addressing Bernoulli likelihood issues.
problem Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection fails with Bernoulli likelihood for certain datasets.
method Proposes Bayesian autoencoders and alternative likelihood models to fix the issue.
result Bayesian autoencoders and alternative likelihood models improve OOD detection accuracy.
Batch norm with entropic regularization turns deterministic autoencoders into generative modelscs.LG
Batch normalization with regularization turns deterministic autoencoders into generative models.
problem Creating generative models from deterministic autoencoders.
method Using batch normalization as a source of non-determinism and adding entropic regularization.
result Deterministic autoencoders can be transformed into generative models with similar performance to variational autoencoders.
Novel method for model selection in Bayesian autoencoders.
problem Model selection for Bayesian autoencoders.
method Prior hyper-parameter optimization using distributional sliced-Wasserstein distance.
result State-of-the-art results in small-data regimes.
Bi-Lipschitz Autoencoder ensures robust manifold preservation.
problem Non-injective autoencoders lead to poor convergence and distorted latent representations.
method Injective regularization and bi-Lipschitz relaxation.
result BLAE consistently outperforms existing methods in manifold preservation.
Improved anomaly detection using adversarial mirrored autoencoders.
problem Detecting out-of-distribution samples in machine learning.
method Adversarial Mirrored Autoencoder (AMA) with latent space regularization.
result AMA improves anomaly detection performance on OOD detection benchmarks.
DPA autoencoders learn data distribution and intrinsic dimensionality with guarantees.
problem Learning data distribution and intrinsic dimensionality in unsupervised learning.
method Combines distributionally correct reconstruction with principal-component-like interpretability.
result Exact theoretical guarantees on disentangling factors of variation and intrinsic dimensionality.
Gaussian AutoEncodercs.LG
Generative AutoEncoders require a chosen probability distribution in latent space, usually multivariate Gaussian. The original Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) uses randomness in encoder - causing problematic distortion, and overlaps in latent space for distinct inputs. It turned out unnecessary: we can instead use determ…
New autoencoder improves latent space learning by optimizing sliced Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancies.
problem Improving inner discrepancy between prior and posterior distributions in autoencoders.
method Proposed spherical sliced fused Gromov Wasserstein (SSFG) and variants (MSSFG, PSSFG) to find important directions.
result New autoencoders achieve favorable performance in latent manifold learning, image generation, and reconstruction.
To train an inference network jointly with a deep generative topic model, making it both scalable to big corpora and fast in out-of-sample prediction, we develop Weibull hybrid autoencoding inference (WHAI) for deep latent Dirichlet allocation, which infers posterior samples via a hybrid of stochastic-gradient MCMC and…
New method uses random convex polytopes to measure representation quality.
problem Measuring the quality of deep learning representations.
method Random Polytope Descriptor method based on random convex polytopes.
result Regularization in autoencoders can degrade out-of-distribution detection.
This work provides statistical guarantees for VAEs using PAC-Bayesian theory.
problem Theoretical properties of VAEs remain open questions.
method PAC-Bayesian theory to derive statistical guarantees.
result Upper bounds on Wasserstein distance between input and generative model.
PH-VAE models heavy-tailed data with flexible Phase-Type distributions.
problem Standard VAEs fail to capture heavy-tailed behavior in real-world data.
method PH-VAE uses Phase-Type distributions defined by continuous-time Markov chains to adaptively model tail behavior.
result PH-VAE significantly outperforms existing heavy-tail-aware VAEs in approximating diverse heavy-tailed distributions.
Unsupervised learning is of growing interest because it unlocks the potential held in vast amounts of unlabelled data to learn useful representations for inference. Autoencoders, a form of generative model, may be trained by learning to reconstruct unlabelled input data from a latent representation space. More robust r…
There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our method masks the autoencoder's parameters to respect autoregressive constraints: ea…
Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient dimension. We argue that this discrepancy may contribute to the difficulties in training generative models. We therefore propose to map both th…
Domain adaptation aims to exploit the knowledge in source domain to promote the learning tasks in target domain, which plays a critical role in real-world applications. Recently, lots of deep learning approaches based on autoencoders have achieved a significance performance in domain adaptation. However, most existing …
Regularized autoencoders learn the latent codes, a structure with the regularization under the distribution, which enables them the capability to infer the latent codes given observations and generate new samples given the codes. However, they are sometimes ambiguous as they tend to produce reconstructions that are not…
Paper uses VAEs to detect radar targets in complex noise.
problem Detecting radar targets in compound clutter and thermal noise.
method Proposes a VAE architecture to distinguish radar targets from various noise types.
result The VAE outperforms classical detectors in challenging noise conditions.
Wasserstein Autoencoders improve model efficiency and interpretability for low-dimensional data.
problem Limited statistical guarantees for WAEs in low-dimensional data.
method Proper network architecture selection and analysis of expected excess risk convergence rates.
result WAEs can learn data distributions efficiently when intrinsic dimension is considered.
The standard interpretation of importance-weighted autoencoders is that they maximize a tighter lower bound on the marginal likelihood than the standard evidence lower bound. We give an alternate interpretation of this procedure: that it optimizes the standard variational lower bound, but using a more complex distribut…
Probabilistic Autoencoder learns latent space weights' distribution.
problem Nonlinear model reconstruction error and sample quality.
method Normalizing flow for latent space weights' probability distribution.
result PAE achieves small reconstruction errors, high sample quality, and good performance.
New method learns disentangled discrete representations using categorical variational autoencoders.
problem Learning disentangled representations from discrete latent spaces.
method Replaced standard Gaussian VAE with a categorical VAE to mitigate rotational invariance.
result Categorical distributions improve learning of disentangled representations.
The paper proposes a probabilistic autoencoder for discovering causal directions between variables.
problem Finding the causal direction between two associated variables.
method Building an autoencoder of the joint distribution and maximizing its estimation capacity relative to marginal distributions.
result The higher estimation capacity is consistent with the unconstrained choice of a distribution representing the cause, while the lower capacity reflects the constraints imposed by the mechanism on the distribution of the effect.
A key advance in learning generative models is the use of amortized inference distributions that are jointly trained with the models. We find that existing training objectives for variational autoencoders can lead to inaccurate amortized inference distributions and, in some cases, improving the objective provably degra…
New VAE model improves data fitting without sacrificing computational efficiency.
problem Limitation of Gaussian assumption in VAE for continuous variable fitting.
method Infinite mixture of asymmetric Laplace distribution in decoder, nonparametric M-estimator for quantile estimation.
result Model demonstrates superior data privacy adjustment and better distribution fitting.
Statistical Regeneration Guarantees of the Wasserstein Autoencoder with Latent Space Consistencystat.ML
This paper provides statistical guarantees for WAE's latent space regeneration.
problem Lack of statistical analysis for Autoencoders, especially WAE.
method Utilizes Vapnik Chervonenkis (VC) theory and Optimal Transport of measures under the Wasserstein metric.
result WAE achieves the target distribution in the latent space and regenerates the input distribution.
Benefiting Deep Latent Variable Models via Learning the Prior and Removing Latent Regularizationcs.LG
New findings suggest latent regularization is unnecessary for high-quality image generation.
problem Improving image generation quality without latent regularization.
method Investigated the effect of latent regularization on image generation using learned priors.
result In the case of a sufficiently expressive prior, latent regularization is not necessary and may harm image quality.
Graphon autoencoder generates graphs with arbitrary sizes using Chebyshev filters.
problem Generating graphs with arbitrary sizes and arbitrary structures.
method Induces graphons from observed graphs, uses Chebyshev filters for latent representation, and learns encoder and decoder to minimize Wasserstein distance.
result Graphon autoencoder provides a new paradigm for graph generation with good generalizability and transferability.
Proposes a multi-view VAE for imputing missing data from correlated sources.
problem Imputing missing data from multi-view sources with latent space correlation.
method Enforces a joint prior with latent space correlation between VAEs trained on each view.
result More strongly correlated latent spaces are uncovered, enabling effective imputation.
The autoencoder is an artificial neural network model that learns hidden representations of unlabeled data. With a linear transfer function it is similar to the principal component analysis (PCA). While both methods use weight vectors for linear transformations, the autoencoder does not come with any indication similar…
Few-shot domain adaptation improves autoencoder performance in changing wireless channels.
problem Frequent retraining of autoencoder for low decoding error rate in changing channel conditions is impractical.
method Uses Gaussian mixture density network and class and component-conditional affine transformations for few-shot adaptation.
result Effective adaptation using very small number of target domain samples, improving performance in real mmWave setups.
Langevin autoencoders improve deep latent variable models with efficient posterior sampling.
problem Efficient posterior sampling in deep latent variable models using MCMC.
method Amortized Langevin dynamics (ALD) replaces datapoint-wise sampling with encoder updates.
result ALD is valid as an MCMC algorithm with the target posterior as a stationary distribution.
Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and separating these manifolds. In this paper, we present a novel approach to solve th…
Variational Autoencoders are powerful models for unsupervised learning. However deep models with several layers of dependent stochastic variables are difficult to train which limits the improvements obtained using these highly expressive models. We propose a new inference model, the Ladder Variational Autoencoder, that…
Autoencoders have been successful in learning meaningful representations from image datasets. However, their performance on text datasets has not been widely studied. Traditional autoencoders tend to learn possibly trivial representations of text documents due to their confounding properties such as high-dimensionality…
Study reveals the regularization effect of variational distributions in VAEs.
problem Understanding the regularization role of variational distributions in VAEs.
method Analyzed the role of variational family in VAEs and studied the regularization effect on local geometry.
result Uncovered the implicit regularizer in the -VAE objective and proposed a deterministic autoencoding objective.