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48 results for graph VAE

Semi-implicit graph variational auto-encoder (SIG-VAE) is proposed to expand the flexibility of variational graph auto-encoders (VGAE) to model graph data. SIG-VAE employs a hierarchical variational framework to enable neighboring node sharing for better generative modeling of graph dependency structure, together with …

2019-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) recently emerged as powerful node embedding methods. In particular, graph AE and VAE were successfully leveraged to tackle the challenging link prediction problem, aiming at figuring out whether some pairs of nodes from a graph are connected by unobserved edges…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we present a general framework to scale graph autoencoders (AE) and graph variational autoencoders (VAE). This framework leverages graph degeneracy concepts to train models only from a dense subset of nodes instead of using the entire graph. Together with a simple yet effective propagation mechanism, our…

2019-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

A graph VAE framework optimizes neural architectures in a continuous space.

problem Discovering efficient neural architectures in a discrete space.
method Graph VAE framework with VAE and GNN components, joint learning of predictors and decoders.
result The framework discovers powerful neural architectures with both excellent performance and high computational efficiency.

We improve a graph generation model to accurately recover Barabási-Albert graph parameters.

problem Recover Barabási-Albert graph parameters from graph data.
method Use a disentanglement-focused deep autoencoding framework with a sequential LSTM decoder trained on graph data.
result Successfully recover Barabási-Albert graph parameters.

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.

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) defined over SMILES string and graph-based representations of molecules promise to improve the optimization of molecular properties, thereby revolutionizing the pharmaceuticals and materials industries. However, these VAEs are hindered by the non-unique nature of SMILES strings and the c…

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph structured data are abundant in the real world. Among different graph types, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are of particular interest to machine learning researchers, as many machine learning models are realized as computations on DAGs, including neural networks and Bayesian networks. In this paper, we study dee…

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We present RL-VAE, a graph-to-graph variational autoencoder that uses reinforcement learning to decode molecular graphs from latent embeddings. Methods have been described previously for graph-to-graph autoencoding, but these approaches require sophisticated decoders that increase the complexity of training and evaluat…

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative models of graph structure have applications in biology and social sciences. The state of the art is GraphRNN, which decomposes the graph generation process into a series of sequential steps. While effective for modest sizes, it loses its permutation invariance for larger graphs. Instead, we present a permuta…

2019-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

ES-VAE models skeletal pose trajectories by removing nuisance factors.

problem Handling camera orientation, subject scale, viewpoint, and execution speed in skeletal data.
method ES-VAE uses TSRVF representation on Kendall's shape manifold to isolate shape dynamics.
result ES-VAE outperforms standard VAEs and sequence modeling baselines in gait cycle prediction and action recognition.

We introduce the variational graph auto-encoder (VGAE), a framework for unsupervised learning on graph-structured data based on the variational auto-encoder (VAE). This model makes use of latent variables and is capable of learning interpretable latent representations for undirected graphs. We demonstrate this model us…

2016-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are capable of learning latent representations for high dimensional data. However, due to the i.i.d. assumption, VAEs only optimize the singleton variational distributions and fail to account for the correlations between data points, which might be crucial for learning latent representa…

2019-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose to learn a hierarchical prior in the context of variational autoencoders to avoid the over-regularisation resulting from a standard normal prior distribution. To incentivise an informative latent representation of the data, we formulate the learning problem as a constrained optimisation problem by extending …

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Graphs are a fundamental abstraction for modeling relational data. However, graphs are discrete and combinatorial in nature, and learning representations suitable for machine learning tasks poses statistical and computational challenges. In this work, we propose Graphite, an algorithmic framework for unsupervised learn…

2018-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes TNCM-VAE for generating causal financial time series.

problem Lack of causal reasoning in market generators.
method Combines VAE with structural causal models, enforcing causal constraints through DAGs and using causal Wasserstein distance.
result Superior performance in counterfactual probability estimation, L1 distances as low as 0.03-0.10.

CausalVAE learns causal relationships in VAE models for better data disentanglement.

problem Learning disentanglement of independent factors from observational data.
method CausalVAE framework with a Causal Layer to transform exogenous factors into causal endogenous ones.
result CausalVAE learns semantically interpretable causal representations and accurately identifies their DAG structure.

In this paper, we integrate VAEs and flow-based generative models successfully and get f-VAEs. Compared with VAEs, f-VAEs generate more vivid images, solved the blurred-image problem of VAEs. Compared with flow-based models such as Glow, f-VAE is more lightweight and converges faster, achieving the same performance und…

2018-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This research explores a modified VAE model to learn disentangled representations for object recognition.

problem Learning invariant representations for object recognition from diverse appearances.
method Develops a modified Variational Autoencoder (ββ-VAE) to enforce disentangled representations using variational inference.
result Demonstrates that the incompatibility between ββ-VAE's conditional independence and latent variable independence leads to non-monotonic inference performance.

This work tackles posterior collapse in conditional and hierarchical VAEs.

problem Posterior collapse in VAEs leads to poor latent variable representations.
method Theoretical analysis of linear conditional and hierarchical VAEs, empirical validation.
result Theoretical and empirical evidence of posterior collapse causes in conditional and hierarchical VAEs.

Generative networks have made it possible to generate meaningful signals such as images and texts from simple noise. Recently, generative methods based on GAN and VAE were developed for graphs and graph signals. However, the mathematical properties of these methods are unclear, and training good generative models is di…

2018-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model designs molecular latent vectors for drug discovery.

problem Designing effective molecular descriptors from molecular structures.
method Proposes a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for variational autoencoding molecular graphs.
result Demonstrates superior prediction performance and robustness compared to existing approaches.

New system for i-vector speaker recognition based on variational autoencoder (VAE) is investigated. VAE is a promising approach for developing accurate deep nonlinear generative models of complex data. Experiments show that VAE provides speaker embedding and can be effectively trained in an unsupervised manner. LLR est…

2017-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified approach to DP problems using Gumbel distribution and variational Bayesian inference.

problem Solving classical optimal path problems in a probabilistic framework.
method Gumbel distribution and variational Bayesian inference for latent optimal paths.
result Unified approach transforms DP problems into directed acyclic graphs with Gibbs distribution.

Proposes a model combining graph networks and variational Bayes for graph data.

problem Probabilistic modeling of graph structured data.
method Combines graph networks and variational Bayes for probabilistic modeling of graph data.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on wind farm monitoring and Gaussian Process data.

The paper provides convergence guarantees for VAEs using SGD and Adam.

problem Understanding theoretical convergence guarantees for VAEs.
method Derives non-asymptotic convergence rates for VAEs trained with SGD and Adam.
result Convergence rate of \(\mathcal{O}(\log n / \sqrt{n})\) with explicit hyperparameter dependencies.

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.

C2^2VAE learns disentangled and coupled representations without prior knowledge.

problem Learning disentangled and coupled representations in latent space.
method Introduces C2^2VAE, a self-supervised VAE that factorizes posterior and uses Gaussian copula for dependencies.
result Demonstrates strong effect in enhancing disentangled representation learning.

The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework remains a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, especially for discrete data where generative adversarial networks (GANs) require workaround to create gradient for the generator. In our work modeling US postal addresses, we show that our discrete VAE wit…

2019-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Single training run learns optimal VAE parameters for various β values.

problem Training VAEs with varying β values for optimal trade-off between distortion and rate.
method Introduced Multi-Rate VAE (MR-VAE) using hypernetworks to map β to optimal parameters.
result MR-VAEs can construct the full rate-distortion curve without additional training.

VAEs analyzed using harmonic analysis, showing how variance controls frequency content and robustness.

problem Understanding and optimizing VAEs for robustness and frequency control.
method Viewing VAE latent space as Gaussian space, deriving results on variance and frequency content, and demonstrating soft Lipschitz constraints.
result Increasing encoder variance reduces high frequency content and improves adversarial robustness.

A framework uses deep generative modeling to design metamaterials efficiently.

problem Designing metamaterials with complex properties is challenging due to high-dimensional design space and high computational cost.
method A variational autoencoder (VAE) and a regressor are trained on a large database to map microstructures to a latent space, enabling interpolation and manipulation of microstructures.
result The latent space provides a distance metric for shape similarity and encoding meaningful patterns of variation, enabling efficient design of microstructures and multiscale systems.