We propose a nonparametric Bayesian probabilistic latent variable model for multi-view anomaly detection, which is the task of finding instances that have inconsistent views. With the proposed model, all views of a non-anomalous instance are assumed to be generated from a single latent vector. On the other hand, an ano…
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Proposes a novel method for detecting novelty in multi-modal data.
problem Challenges in detecting novelty in high-dimensional, multi-modal data.
method Orthogonalized latent space for disentangling features and defining novelty score.
result Proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in novelty detection.
A new model for sparse networks improves consistency of score estimators.
problem Statistical inference in large sparse networks.
method General pairwise comparison model with flexible parametrization.
result Maximum likelihood estimator is uniformly consistent under sparse conditions.
As a popular tool for producing meaningful and interpretable models, large-scale sparse learning works efficiently when the underlying structures are indeed or close to sparse. However, naively applying the existing regularization methods can result in misleading outcomes due to model misspecification. In particular, t…
DualVDT improves time-series forecasting with a novel dual reparametrized structure.
problem Time-series forecasting with improved performance and analytical rigor.
method Dual reparametrized variational mechanisms on VAE, latent score based generative model, reverse time stochastic differential equation, variational ancestral sampling, KL divergence reduction.
result Advanced performance in time-series forecasting with reduced KL divergence.
New score-based methods identify causal structures with latent variables.
problem Identifying causal structures involving latent variables.
method Score-based methods with identifiability guarantees.
result Score equivalence and consistency for latent variable causal models.
Enhances interpretability of linear latent spaces through automated clustering and ranking.
problem Severe interpretability issues in latent directions of PCA, ICA, CCA, and FA.
method LS-PIE framework automates clustering and ranking of latent vectors.
result Enhanced interpretability of latent vectors through LR, LS, LC, and LCON.
Enhances learning of structured distributions using nonlinear denoising score matching.
problem Learning structured distributions from noisy data.
method Latent Nonlinear Denoising Score Matching (LNDSM) integrating nonlinear dynamics with VAE-based latent score matching.
result LNDSM achieves superior sample quality and variability compared to structure-agnostic methods.
Evaluating, explaining, and visualizing high-level concepts in generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), is challenging in part due to a lack of known prediction classes that are required to generate saliency maps in supervised learning. While saliency maps may help identify relevant features (e.g., p…
This paper presents a novel approach to speaker subspace modelling based on Gaussian-Binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines (GRBM). The proposed model is based on the idea of shared factors as in the Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA). GRBM hidden layer is divided into speaker and channel factors, herein t…
LSGM trains SGMs in latent space for faster sampling.
problem Efficiently generating high-quality samples from complex distributions.
method LSGM trains SGMs in latent space using a variational autoencoder framework, introducing new score-matching objectives and parameterizations.
result LSGM achieves state-of-the-art FID score of 2.10 on CIFAR-10 and outperforms previous SGMs in sampling time.
New method for efficient marginalization of discrete latent variables in neural networks.
problem Computational challenges in training models with discrete latent variables.
method Parameterizing discrete distributions using sparse mappings (sparsemax and structured variants) to reduce support and enable efficient marginalization.
result Achieved good performance in various tasks with efficient and practical training.
Paper recovers latent causal structure and linear transformation from indirect observations.
problem Recovering latent causal structure and linear transformation from indirect observations.
method Established sufficient conditions for DAG recovery, leveraged score function properties, and used soft/hard interventions.
result Perfect recovery of latent DAG structure and linear transformation up to scaling using soft interventions, hard interventions with additional hypothesis testing.
InfoGAN-CR and ModelCentrality: Self-supervised Model Training and Selection for Disentangling GANscs.LG
Disentangled generative models map a latent code vector to a target space, while enforcing that a subset of the learned latent codes are interpretable and associated with distinct properties of the target distribution. Recent advances have been dominated by Variational AutoEncoder (VAE)-based methods, while training di…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a better fit to the target data distribution when the dataset includes many different…
Most speech recognition tasks pertain to mapping words across two modalities: acoustic and orthographic. In this work, we suggest learning encoders that map variable-length, acoustic or phonetic, sequences that represent words into fixed-dimensional vectors in a shared latent space; such that the distance between two w…
LD-EnSF speeds up data assimilation with sparse observations.
problem Efficiently assimilate sparse and noisy data into complex dynamical systems.
method LD-EnSF uses latent dynamics networks and history-aware LSTM encoders to process sparse observations without full-space simulations.
result Achieves significant speedups over existing methods while maintaining high accuracy.
We propose a new type of variational autoencoder to perform improved pre-processing for clustering and anomaly detection on data with a given label. Anomalies however are not known or labeled. We call our method conditional latent space variational autonencoder since it separates the latent space by conditioning on inf…
Latent representations are the essence of deep generative models and determine their usefulness and power. For latent representations to be useful as generative concept representations, their latent space must support latent space interpolation, attribute vectors and concept vectors, among other things. We investigate …
The recent success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is a result of their ability to generate high quality images from a latent vector space. An important application is the generation of images from a text description, where the text description is encoded and further used in the conditioning of the generated i…
We use the score function for causal discovery, tackling challenges with hidden variables.
problem Causal discovery from observational data with hidden variables.
method Fine-tuning identifiability results, establishing conditions for inferring causal relations from the score, proposing a flexible algorithm.
result Empirical validation of the proposed algorithm for causal discovery on linear, nonlinear, and latent variable models.
Paper presents variational estimates for EBLVMs without structural assumptions.
problem Challenges in learning and evaluating EBLVMs due to intractable true posteriors and partition functions.
method Variational estimates of the score function and its gradient (VaES and VaGES) in a general EBLVM.
result The estimates can be applied to KSD and SM-based methods to learn EBLVMs and estimate Fisher divergence.
Personalized Risk Scoring for Critical Care Patients using Mixtures of Gaussian Process Expertscs.LG
We develop a personalized real time risk scoring algorithm that provides timely and granular assessments for the clinical acuity of ward patients based on their (temporal) lab tests and vital signs. Heterogeneity of the patients population is captured via a hierarchical latent class model. The proposed algorithm aims t…
SDE Matching: Scalable and Simulation-Free Training of Latent Stochastic Differential Equationsstat.ML
SDE Matching eliminates simulation for training Latent SDEs, achieving similar performance.
problem Training Latent SDEs with adjoint sensitivity methods is computationally expensive and limited.
method SDE Matching, inspired by Score- and Flow Matching, eliminates simulation for training Latent SDEs.
result SDE Matching achieves performance comparable to adjoint sensitivity methods while reducing computational complexity.
Latent DiTs improve data distribution recovery and inference efficiency under low-dimensional latent space.
problem Improving data distribution recovery and inference efficiency in latent DiTs.
method Investigates statistical and computational limits of latent DiTs under low-dimensional latent space assumption, deriving approximation error bounds, sample complexity, and efficient inference and training algorithms.
result Latent DiTs can bypass high dimensionality challenges and achieve almost-linear time inference and training.
Your GAN is Secretly an Energy-based Model and You Should use Discriminator Driven Latent Samplingcs.LG
Improves GANs by sampling from an energy-based model induced by discriminator scores.
problem Improving the quality of images generated by GANs.
method DDLS (Discriminator Driven Latent Sampling) using the sum of latent prior log-density and discriminator output score.
result Significantly improves Inception Score on CIFAR-10 dataset.
Identifying customer segments in retail banking portfolios with different risk profiles can improve the accuracy of credit scoring. The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has shown promising results in different research domains, and it has been documented the powerful information embedded in the latent space of the VAE. We…
dcFCI discovers causal relationships robustly under latent confounding and mixed data.
problem Causal discovery under latent confounding and unfaithfulness.
method dcFCI integrates a new score to assess PAG compatibility, guided by FCI search.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in small and heterogeneous datasets.
Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.
problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.
Study on reliability of latent reuse in diffusion models under distribution shift.
problem When can latent spaces from a source dataset be reused for a target dataset with different distributions?
method Considered a source-target setting with approximately low-dimensional datasets near different subspaces. Analyzed the target-domain score error due to principal-angle misalignment and target ambient noise.
result Latent reuse is reliable only if the source and target subspaces are close and the target ambient noise is not too amplified.
This paper tackles causal representation learning with linear and general transformations.
problem Identify and recover latent causal variables and graphs under unknown transformations.
method Score-based algorithms that use gradients of log-density functions for identifiability and achievability.
result Two stochastic hard interventions per node are sufficient for identifiability of general transformations.
An efficient search-and-score algorithm for ancestral graphs using multivariate information scorescs.LG
Efficiently searches ancestral graphs using multivariate information.
problem Discovering causal relationships in graphs with latent variables.
method Greedy search-and-score algorithm with two-step approach.
result Outperforms existing methods on benchmark datasets.
GBOC detects anomalies in time series data using granular-ball vectors.
problem Challenges in modeling normal behavior in dynamic, nonlinear time series data.
method Granular-ball Vector Data Description (GVDD) and Granular-ball One-Class Network (GBOC).
result GBOC improves anomaly detection in time series data.
A new method for discrete data normalizing flows using latent transformations.
problem Challenges in parameterizing bijective transformations for discrete data.
method Predict a distribution over latent transformations to make the marginal likelihood differentiable.
result Discrete-data normalizing flows can be trained using gradient-based learning with unbiased score function estimation.
CCHM algorithm learns BN structure with latent variables, improving causal effect measurement.
problem Latent variables cause spurious relationships in BN structure learning.
method Hybrid approach combining constraint-based and score-based learning, incorporating do-calculus.
result CCHM outperforms state-of-the-art in reconstructing true BN structure.
Early stopping improves sample quality in latent diffusion models.
problem Latent diffusion models degrade sample quality with conventional early stopping.
method Analyzed the interaction between latent dimension and stopping time under Gaussian framework.
result Lower-dimensional representations benefit from earlier termination, higher-dimensional spaces require later stopping.
A new VAE model identifies and estimates treatment effects with limited overlap.
problem Identifying and estimating treatment effects when subjects with certain features belong to a single treatment group.
method Developed a latent variable model to estimate a prognostic score, which is sufficient for treatment effects. The model is a new type of VAE called β-Intact-VAE.
result The model identifies individualized treatment effects and provides TE error bounds.
Paper establishes identifiability conditions for a model with two latent vectors and auxiliary data.
problem Identifying conditions for a statistical model with two latent vectors and auxiliary data.
method Proposes a statistical model with two latent vectors and auxiliary data, establishing various identifiability conditions.
result Identifiability conditions reveal a dimensionality relation and link model indeterminacies to maximum link weights.
Polytopic Matrix Factorization models data as latent vectors from a polytope, maximizing determinant for identifiability.
problem Data decomposition with semi-structured latent vectors and polytope constraints.
method Model input data as latent vectors from a polytope, using determinant maximization for identifiability.
result Identifiability condition for polytopes with specific symmetry restrictions.
The paper predicts responses on out-of-sample nodes using latent positions on unknown curves.
problem Predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes with latent positions on unknown curves.
method Manifold learning and graph embedding technique using latent positions.
result Convergence guarantees for predicting responses on out-of-sample nodes.
We address the curse of dimensionality in dynamic covariance estimation by modeling the underlying co-volatility dynamics of a time series vector through latent time-varying stochastic factors. The use of a global-local shrinkage prior for the elements of the factor loadings matrix pulls loadings on superfluous factors…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have experienced a recent surge in popularity, performing competitively in a variety of tasks, especially in computer vision. However, GAN training has shown limited success in natural language processing. This is largely because sequences of text are discrete, and thus gradients …
We propose an unsupervised object matching method for relational data, which finds matchings between objects in different relational datasets without correspondence information. For example, the proposed method matches documents in different languages in multi-lingual document-word networks without dictionaries nor ali…
SAMI learns disentangled representations from data.
problem Learning disentangled representations from data.
method Combines diffusion models and VAEs to learn disentangled representations.
result SAMI learns disentangled representations that are interpretable and useful.
LTMs use latent vectors for efficient autoregressive generation.
problem Efficient autoregressive generation in language models.
method Dual-rate optimization in variational Bayes framework.
result LTMs achieve superior sample and parameter efficiency.
Develops ELBD for efficient feature selection in VAE latent variables.
problem Feature selection in latent variables of VAE and its variants.
method ELBD score algorithm and weak convergence approximation for optimization.
result Effective feature selection and optimization of VAE models.
A new method for math reasoning that allows for iterative correction.
problem Standard reasoning models commit to each token and cannot recover from early errors.
method Generative framework with latent thought vectors for iterative self-correction.
result 30 rethinking iterations surpass baselines with 15 times more parameters.
Score matching is a popular method for estimating unnormalized statistical models. However, it has been so far limited to simple, shallow models or low-dimensional data, due to the difficulty of computing the Hessian of log-density functions. We show this difficulty can be mitigated by projecting the scores onto random…