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48 results for Hamiltonian Variational Autoencoder

TSC uses HMC and adaptive transport maps to optimize forward KL for variational inference.

problem Variational inference underestimates uncertainty when minimizing reverse KL.
method TSC uses Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and adaptive transport maps to optimize KL(p||q).
result TSC achieves competitive performance in training variational autoencoders on large-scale data.

Proposes a Bayesian Autoencoder with sparse Gaussian process priors to capture data correlations.

problem Autoencoders' i.i.d. assumption of latent representations fails to capture data correlations.
method Imposes fully Bayesian sparse Gaussian Process priors on the latent space of a Bayesian Autoencoder and uses stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for posterior estimation.
result Consistently outperforms alternatives relying on Variational Autoencoders on various tasks.

HH-VAEM improves imputation and acquisition of missing data using hierarchical models and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.

problem Imputation and acquisition of missing heterogeneous data.
method Hierarchical VAE model with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and automatic hyper-parameter tuning.
result HH-VAEM outperforms existing methods in imputation and supervised learning tasks.

SGNs use Hamiltonian mechanics for invertible deep generative modeling.

problem Efficient and exact likelihood evaluation for deep generative models.
method Symplectic structure in latent space, Hamiltonian dynamics for data generation.
result Exact likelihood evaluation without Jacobian calculations.

Variational autoencoders provide a principled framework for learning deep latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. In this work, we provide an introduction to variational autoencoders and some important extensions.

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Generalizes Hamiltonian theory for variational problems, applied to first order gravity.

problem Formulating Hamiltonian field theory for variational problems of general nature.
method Introduces a generalized Hamiltonian formalism without requiring a Hamiltonian section.
result Develops a novel multisymplectic Hamiltonian field theory for first order gravity.

A standard Variational Autoencoder, with a Euclidean latent space, is structurally incapable of capturing topological properties of certain datasets. To remove topological obstructions, we introduce Diffusion Variational Autoencoders with arbitrary manifolds as a latent space. A Diffusion Variational Autoencoder uses t…

2019-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We extend Stochastic Gradient Variational Bayes to perform posterior inference for the weights of Stick-Breaking processes. This development allows us to define a Stick-Breaking Variational Autoencoder (SB-VAE), a Bayesian nonparametric version of the variational autoencoder that has a latent representation with stocha…

2016-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop variational integrators from discrete Hamiltonian systems with external forces.

problem Creating accurate discrete models of continuous Hamiltonian systems.
method Constructing discrete Hamiltonian systems with external forces, analyzing symplectic structure, and combining methods to build variational integrators.
result We derive variational integrators that approximate continuous Hamiltonian systems with high accuracy.

Variational autoencoders often collapse, showing latent variables are non-identifiable.

problem Posterior collapse in variational autoencoders due to non-identifiable latent variables.
method Proves latent variable non-identifiability causes posterior collapse. Proposes latent-identifiable models using Brenier maps and input convex neural networks.
result Latent-identifiable models resolve posterior collapse and provide meaningful representations.

Learning in the latent variable model is challenging in the presence of the complex data structure or the intractable latent variable. Previous variational autoencoders can be low effective due to the straightforward encoder-decoder structure. In this paper, we propose a variational composite autoencoder to sidestep th…

2018-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Constructs surfaces with conical singularities using variational methods.

problem Creating Hamiltonian Stationary Surfaces with specific singularities.
method Variational methods and convergence process similar to Ginzburg-Landau analysis.
result Obtained surfaces with prescribed conical singularities related to optimal Wente constants.

Paper proposes efficient multivariate spatial Fay-Herriot models using variational autoencoders.

problem Estimating population characteristics in small areas with limited data.
method Integrates multivariate spatial Fay-Herriot model with variational autoencoders to leverage spatial structure efficiently.
result Significant computational efficiency improvements for high-dimensional datasets.

We present two deep generative models based on Variational Autoencoders to improve the accuracy of drug response prediction. Our models, Perturbation Variational Autoencoder and its semi-supervised extension, Drug Response Variational Autoencoder (Dr.VAE), learn latent representation of the underlying gene states befor…

2017-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years Variation Autoencoders have become one of the most popular unsupervised learning of complicated distributions.Variational Autoencoder (VAE) provides more efficient reconstructive performance over a traditional autoencoder. Variational auto enocders make better approximaiton than MCMC. The VAE defines a …

2017-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

A new model for multiview data analysis using graph autoencoders.

problem Nonlinear multiview canonical correlation analysis for large datasets.
method Variational approach with graph convolutional neural networks.
result Competitive performance on classification, clustering, and recommendation tasks.

Variational autoencoders learn unsupervised data representations, but these models frequently converge to minima that fail to preserve meaningful semantic information. For example, variational autoencoders with autoregressive decoders often collapse into autodecoders, where they learn to ignore the encoder input. In th…

2019-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

PRI-VAE learns disentangled representations by optimizing principle-of-relevant-information.

problem Learning disentangled representations under VAE framework remains unknown.
method Proposes PRI-VAE, a novel learning objective to optimize disentanglement.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of PRI-VAE on four benchmark datasets.

Score matching fails to train VAEs robustly, revealing autoencoding loss insights.

problem Catastrophic failure of variational score matching on VAE models.
method Analysis of existing variational score matching objectives and their equivalence to autoencoding losses.
result Score matching methods fail to produce robust VAE models, predicting poor performance.

We present a variation of the Autoencoder (AE) that explicitly maximizes the mutual information between the input data and the hidden representation. The proposed model, the InfoMax Autoencoder (IMAE), by construction is able to learn a robust representation and good prototypes of the data. IMAE is compared both theore…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2016-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

In this paper, we provide an information-theoretic interpretation of the Vector Quantized-Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE). We show that the loss function of the original VQ-VAE can be derived from the variational deterministic information bottleneck (VDIB) principle. On the other hand, the VQ-VAE trained by the Expect…

2018-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

EVGAE improves VGAE's latent representation learning by mitigating over-pruning.

problem Over-pruning in VGAE limits latent variable capacity and diversity.
method EVGAE uses epitomic approach with multiple sparse VGAE models (epitomes) to increase active latent units and improve generative ability.
result EVGAE outperforms VGAE in generative ability and link prediction on citation networks.

Optimizes variational autoencoder for detecting missing data in Mars rover transmissions.

problem Detecting missing data in Mars rover transmissions to prevent volume loss and corruption.
method Applies derivative-free optimization to tune variational autoencoder.
result Improves variational autoencoder's ability to detect missing data, aiding GDSA team.

ED-VAE improves VAEs by explicitly including entropy components in ELBO.

problem Limitations of traditional VAEs with ELBO in generating high-quality samples and interpreting latent spaces.
method Introduces ED-VAE, a re-formulation of ELBO that includes entropy and cross-entropy components.
result Significantly enhances model flexibility and improves interpretability and generative performance.

A Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian submanifold of a Kaehler manifold is a Lagrangian submanifold whose volume is stationary under Hamiltonian variations. We find a sufficient condition on the curvature of a Kaehler manifold of real dimension four that guarantees the existence of a family of small Hamiltonian stationar…

2008-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Gaussian process variational autoencoders improve disentanglement in time series data.

problem Learning disentangled representations from multivariate time series data.
method Model each latent channel with a Gaussian process prior and a structured variational distribution to capture temporal dependencies.
result Competitive performance on benchmark and real-world medical time series data.