NE-VAE prevents posterior collapse in VAEs by embedding neighbors in latent space.
problem Posterior collapse in VAEs when strong decoders are used.
method Neighbor embedding in latent space to prevent collapse.
result NE-VAE produces qualitatively different latent representations with active latent dimensions.
q-VAE extracts disentangled latent spaces for robot control and dynamic systems.
problem Disentangled representation learning for latent spaces in robotics.
method Proposes q-VAE based on Tsallis statistics, improving disentanglement and latent dynamics.
result Improves disentangled representation while maintaining data reconstruction accuracy.
Unified framework for disentangled VAEs improves latent space interpretability.
problem Challenges in evaluating and interpreting latent representations, especially for diverse data types.
method Unified bfVAE framework, FVH-LT, DBSR-LS, GAS, LSSI.
result bfVAE provides more favorable trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction.
Improved deep hierarchical VAE with diffusion-based VampPrior.
problem Latent variable generative modeling challenges.
method Hierarchical VAE with amortized diffusion-based VampPrior.
result Better performance with fewer parameters and improved stability.
VAEs (Variational AutoEncoders) have proved to be powerful in the context of density modeling and have been used in a variety of contexts for creative purposes. In many settings, the data we model possesses continuous attributes that we would like to take into account at generation time. We propose in this paper GLSR-V…
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.
Integrates inductive biases into VAEs using intermediary latent variables.
problem Ineffective mechanisms for incorporating inductive biases into VAEs.
method InteL-VAEs use an intermediary latent space to control encoding, with a parametric function to enforce desired properties.
result InteL-VAEs lead to better generative models and representations.
VAE improves semi-supervised learning in small data.
problem Limited data in biological samples.
method Applied VAE to capture features in a lower-dimension.
result Improved performance in semi-supervised learning.
X-VAE uses data-adaptive Gaussian priors to improve latent space modeling.
problem Limitations of standard Gaussian priors in complex datasets.
method Data-adaptive Gaussian prior derived from pretrained autoencoder latent codes.
result Improved latent space modeling and generation quality.
The paper develops a method to dynamically adjust VAE latent space dimensions during training.
problem Under- or overprovisioning of latent space dimensions in VAEs.
method GECO optimizer with L0-ARM gradient estimator to dynamically adjust latent space dimensions. result The latent space can be pruned effectively without violating reconstruction error constraints.
Proposes a VAE with a discrete bottleneck for better text generation.
problem VAEs struggle with latent variable auto-regressive decoding in text generation.
method Introduces a discretized bottleneck to enforce latent feature matching in a compact space.
result Demonstrates improved text generation capabilities across various tasks.
NES optimizes discrete structured VAEs effectively without gradient propagation.
problem Learning high-dimensional discrete latent spaces in generative models.
method Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) for gradient-free optimization of discrete structures.
result NES effectively optimizes discrete structured VAEs, comparable to gradient-based methods.
SentenceMIM learns rich latent representations for variable-length language data.
problem Challenges in learning VAEs for variable-length language data, especially posterior collapse.
method Probabilistic auto-encoder trained with Mutual Information Machine (MIM) learning.
result SentenceMIM learns informative latent representations with high mutual information.
UT module refines VAE latent space, improving disentanglement and interpretability.
problem Irregular latent distributions cause posterior collapse and misalignment in VAEs.
method UT module uses G-KDE clustering, GM modeling, and PIT to transform latent space into uniform distribution.
result UT module enhances disentanglement and interpretability of latent representations.
APo-VAE generates text in hyperbolic space for better hierarchical representation.
problem Lack of hierarchical structure in Euclidean embeddings for natural language.
method Adversarial Poincare Variational Autoencoder (APo-VAE) in hyperbolic latent space.
result APo-VAE outperforms Euclidean VAEs in capturing latent language hierarchies.
A new method for VAEs improves latent space disentanglement without violating probability laws.
problem Improving latent space disentanglement in VAEs without violating probability laws.
method Developed a Renyi VAE with a conditional distribution not learned, using Singular Value Decomposition for evaluation.
result Improved latent space disentanglement without violating probability laws.
Proposes a geometry-aware VAE for better latent space modeling.
problem Lack of meaningful latent space structure in VAEs for small datasets.
method Introduces a Riemannian Hamiltonian VAE with a learned metric.
result Improves latent space structure leading to better interpolations and data generation.
This paper proposes a method to improve VAEs by extracting latent spaces from pre-trained diffusion models.
problem VAEs struggle with generating high-quality images due to unrealistic Gaussian assumptions.
method Optimizes an encoder to maximize marginal data log-likelihood and derives a decoder analytically.
result The method enhances VAE performance by discarding Gaussian assumptions and training a separate decoder network.
Our work improves VAE latent space clustering by enforcing invariant and equivariant learning.
problem Current VAEs fail to learn invariant and equivariant clusters in latent space.
method We use a mixture model pdf like Gaussian mixtures to enforce deep, group-invariant learning and separate semantic and equivariant variables.
result Our model effectively learns to disentangle invariant and equivariant representations, improving learning rate and image recognition.
We develop VAE-DLM for dynamics with geometric flows in latent space.
problem Learning latent geometric properties for dynamics in high-dimensional data.
method Riemannian approaches to VAEs with a geometric flow in latent space, reformulating ELBO loss.
result Improved performance and robust learning for external dynamics, reducing OOD error.
Euclidean geometry has historically been the typical "workhorse" for machine learning applications due to its power and simplicity. However, it has recently been shown that geometric spaces with constant non-zero curvature improve representations and performance on a variety of data types and downstream tasks. Conseque…
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.
tvGP-VAE models tensor-valued latent variables with Gaussian processes for better data structure representation.
problem Agnostic latent variables in VAEs ignore data structure correlations.
method Proposes tensor-variate Gaussian process prior for variational autoencoder.
result Explicitly modeling correlation structures improves model performance in reconstruction.
SAE improves VAE's latent space precision in high dimensions.
problem High-dimensional latent codes vs probabilistic inference in VAEs.
method Spherical Auto-Encoder (SAE) with spherical normalization on latent space.
result SAE improves latent code inference precision in high dimensions.
The key idea of variational auto-encoders (VAEs) resembles that of traditional auto-encoder models in which spatial information is supposed to be explicitly encoded in the latent space. However, the latent variables in VAEs are vectors, which can be interpreted as multiple feature maps of size 1x1. Such representations…
CCVAE captures label characteristics in VAEs for better representation learning.
problem Capturing rich label characteristics in VAEs without conflating them with label values.
method Developed CCVAE, a novel VAE model that explicitly captures label characteristics in latent space.
result CCVAE allows for effective and general interventions like smooth traversals and diverse conditional generation.
VAE improves anomaly detection for jet tagging at the LHC.
problem Anomaly detection in jet tagging at the LHC.
method Variational Autoencoder (VAE) trained on background QCD jets, with latent space learning for anomaly detection.
result Outlier Exposed VAE (OE-VAE) achieves excellent results in both sensitivity and decorrelation of jet mass.
A new method for disentangled latent spaces in VAEs that can manipulate attributes.
problem Disentangled representation of attributes in latent spaces of VAEs.
method Attribute-based regularization loss to enforce monotonic relationships between attributes and latent codes.
result Manipulation of attributes in latent spaces post-training.
Unbiased gradient estimation improves VAE performance.
problem Training VAEs via maximum likelihood is difficult due to intractable integrals.
method Introduced unbiased estimators of the log-likelihood gradient using coupled Markov chains.
result Unbiased estimators lead to better predictive performance in VAEs.
Exemplar VAEs link generative models with nearest neighbor retrieval and data augmentation.
problem Improving generative model performance and data augmentation effectiveness.
method Exemplar VAEs with Parzen window prior, retrieval augmented training, exemplar leave-one-out, and subsampling.
result Generative data augmentation reduces classification error on MNIST and Fashion MNIST.
Optimus pre-trains sentences in a latent space for various NLP tasks.
problem Training large-scale language models for diverse NLP tasks.
method Pre-trained Variational Autoencoder (VAE) on large text corpus, fine-tuned for various tasks.
result Optimus achieves state-of-the-art on VAE language modeling benchmarks.
VAEs help in learning latent variables for cryo-EM applications.
problem Learning latent variables for cryo-EM data.
method Used VAEs for latent variable learning, focusing on the encoder's role.
result The encoder of the VAE in cryo-EM applications resembles traditional latent variable representations.
Study improves interpretability in generative models by disentangling latent variables in scientific datasets.
problem Extracting generative factors from complex, high-dimensional datasets in unsupervised or semi-supervised settings.
method Introducing Aux-VAE, a novel architecture within the VAE framework, which disentangles latent variables by guiding them with auxiliary variables.
result Aux-VAE achieves disentanglement with minimal modifications to the standard VAE loss function, validated on multiple datasets.
The Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) is one of the most used unsupervised machine learning models. But although the default choice of a Gaussian distribution for both the prior and posterior represents a mathematically convenient distribution often leading to competitive results, we show that this parameterization fails …
Proposes a new VAE framework for anomaly detection in time series data.
problem Data scarcity leads to latent holes and discontinuous regions in latent space, causing non-robust reconstructions.
method Combines VAEs with self-supervised learning to address data scarcity and improve anomaly detection.
result Improves robustness of anomaly detection in time series data by addressing latent holes and discontinuities.
This paper uses β-VAE for unsupervised anomaly detection in NSL-KDD.
problem Unsupervised anomaly detection in network traffic.
method β-VAE with latent space structure and reconstruction error.
result Latent space exploitation is more effective for classification tasks.
As a general-purpose generative model architecture, VAE has been widely used in the field of image and natural language processing. VAE maps high dimensional sample data into continuous latent variables with unsupervised learning. Sampling in the latent variable space of the feature, VAE can construct new image or text…
New approach separates VAE and GP for better molecular optimisation.
problem Optimizing complex structured domains like molecular spaces using VAEs.
method Decouples VAE for structure generation and GP for predictive modelling, combining them with a Bayesian update rule.
result Improves identification of high-potential candidates in molecular optimisation.
This work analyzes VQ-VAEs using information theory, focusing on latent variables and their impact on generalization and data generation.
problem Lack of theoretical analysis for latent variables in unsupervised models like VQ-VAEs.
method Information-theoretic analysis, introducing a novel data-dependent prior.
result Derives a generalization error bound for VQ-VAEs that depends on LV complexity and encoder, not decoder.
GD-VAEs learn dynamics from observations using geometric and topological information.
problem Learning parsimonious representations of nonlinear dynamics from observations.
method Develops data-driven methods incorporating geometric and topological information using Variational Autoencoders (VAEs).
result GD-VAEs provide methods for learning reduced dimensional representations of nonlinear dynamics.
Proposes a VAE variant for ordinal content factors.
problem Isolating ordinal-valued content factors in deep latent variable models.
method Introduces a partially ordered set (poset) structure and a conditional Gaussian spacing prior model.
result Significant improvements in content-style separation over previous non-ordinal approaches.
This paper clarifies VAE's property through geometric and information-theoretic interpretations.
problem The transparency of VAE model is an underlying issue.
method Quantitative understanding of VAE through differential geometry and information theory.
result VAE can be mapped to an implicit isometric embedding with a scale factor derived from the posterior parameter.
SKR-VAE improves VAEs for ICA with reduced computational cost.
problem Efficiently performing ICA in VAEs with large datasets.
method Structured kernel functions to avoid costly GP kernel matrix inversion.
result SKR-VAE achieves greater computational efficiency and reduced resource consumption.
New insights into optimizing latent representations in hierarchical VAEs.
problem Optimizing latent representations in hierarchical VAEs for various applications.
method Identifying a general class of inference models and deriving theoretical bounds on performance.
result Guidance for practitioners on optimal regions in rate-space for different applications.
Mixture components improve VAE performance by increasing latent flexibility.
problem Improving variational autoencoder (VAE) performance through more flexible latent representations.
method Modeling mixture components with separate encoder networks and analyzing their impact on ELBO.
result Increasing the number of mixture components improves VAE performance on various datasets.
In this paper, we study two aspects of the variational autoencoder (VAE): the prior distribution over the latent variables and its corresponding posterior. First, we decompose the learning of VAEs into layerwise density estimation, and argue that having a flexible prior is beneficial to both sample generation and infer…
Detects outliers in VAE latent space by identifying vacant holes.
problem Outliers detection in VAE latent space.
method Compactness enforced via Alexandroff extension and fixed Lipschitz continuity.
result Anomalous inputs land on latent holes, enabling successful identification.
Paper presents a semi-supervised grasp detection method using VQ-VAE.
problem Robotic grasp detection difficulty due to insufficient labelled data.
method Semi-supervised learning with VQ-VAE in a latent space.
result Model performs better than existing approaches using unlabelled images.