Enhances word embedding by transferring external knowledge.
problem Low-frequency words in semantic space.
method Latent Semantic Imputation (LSI) integrating graph theory and spectral embeddings.
result LSI generates reliable embedding vectors for low-frequency words.
Latent diffusion improves robustness in missing data imputation.
problem Missing data imputation under MCAR corruption.
method Two-stage framework: VAE for latent feature learning, diffusion model in latent space.
result Latent diffusion maintains high quality and stability up to 50% missingness.
We develop a method for user-controllable semantic image inpainting: Given an arbitrary set of observed pixels, the unobserved pixels can be imputed in a user-controllable range of possibilities, each of which is semantically coherent and locally consistent with the observed pixels. We achieve this using a deep generat…
New method predicts bankruptcy by imputing missing data with granular semantics.
problem Missing data, high dimensional data, and class imbalance in bankruptcy prediction.
method Granular computing for missing data imputation with feature semantics and AI-driven pipeline.
result Efficient solution for big datasets with high imputation rates.
LSSDM improves imputation of multivariate time series data.
problem Imputation of multivariate time series data without labels.
method LSSDM projects observed data into latent space, reconstructs missing values without labels, and uses a conditional diffusion model for precise imputation.
result LSSDM achieves superior imputation performance and uncertainty analysis.
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.
This paper tackles time series imputation by identifying and modeling different missing mechanisms.
problem Different types of missing mechanisms (MAR, MNAR) in time series data.
method Proposes a framework for time series imputation by analyzing data generation processes and modeling latent variables via variational inference and normalizing flow.
result Establishes identifiability results for latent variables under nonlinear independent component analysis, showing that latent variables are identifiable.
This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.
problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.
SPLICE generates accurate time-series imputations with reliable prediction intervals.
problem Lack of reliability guarantees in time-series imputation models.
method Modular framework combining latent generative imputation with distribution-free prediction intervals.
result SPLICE achieves lowest mean Load-only MSE and best CRPS on various datasets.
MCFlow uses Monte Carlo sampling and flow models for imputing missing data.
problem Missing data in machine learning datasets.
method MCFlow combines normalizing flow and Monte Carlo sampling to iteratively update data imputation.
result MCFlow outperforms state-of-the-art methods in imputing data quality and semantic structure preservation.
New method predicts unobserved interactions between sets of elements.
problem Limited access to interactions between sets of elements.
method Generalized Synthetic Interventions (GSI) estimator.
result GSI estimator outperforms existing methods on synthetic and real data.
We present label gradient alignment, a novel algorithm for semi-supervised learning which imputes labels for the unlabeled data and trains on the imputed labels. We define a semantically meaningful distance metric on the input space by mapping a point (x, y) to the gradient of the model at (x, y). We then formulate an …
Semantic TrueLearn uses semantic graphs to improve educational recommendation systems.
problem Challenges in handling semantic and hierarchical structure in knowledge areas.
method Introduces a novel learner model that exploits semantic relatedness between knowledge components using a Wikipedia link graph.
result Achieves statistically significant improvements in predictive performance for educational engagement.
Paper proposes structured semantic perturbations to improve adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Manipulates semantic attributes via disentangled latent codes.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of structured semantic perturbations.
CACTI improves tabular data imputation by leveraging missingness patterns and contextual information.
problem Tabular data imputation with improved accuracy and robustness.
method Masked autoencoding approach with median truncated copy masking and contextual information.
result Average R2 gain of 7.8% over the next best method across various datasets and missingness conditions. Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis is a novel statistical technique for the analysis of two-mode and co-occurrence data, which has applications in information retrieval and filtering, natural language processing, machine learning from text, and in related areas. Compared to standard Latent Semantic Analysis which s…
New method neutralizes gender bias in word embeddings without losing semantic information.
problem Gender biases in word embeddings trained on human-generated corpora.
method Latent Disentanglement and Counterfactual Generation with siamese auto-encoder and gradient reversal layer.
result Our method outperforms existing debiasing methods in preserving semantic information and neutralizing gender biases.
VSAE learns from missing heterogeneous data by modeling latent dependencies.
problem Learning from partially-observed heterogeneous data with missingness.
method Variational selective autoencoder (VSAE) models joint distribution of observed, unobserved, and missing data.
result VSAE improves over state-of-the-art models in data generation and imputation tasks.
In this tutorial, I will discuss the details about how Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) is formalized and how different learning algorithms are proposed to learn the model.
Researchers create a simulator to infer worm brain states from calcium imaging data.
problem Impute C. elegans membrane potentials from calcium imaging data.
method Developed a stochastic whole-brain simulator and used SMC method for imputation.
result First to infer worm brain states from partial calcium imaging observations.
We introduce a Bayesian Gaussian process latent variable model that explicitly captures spatial correlations in data using a parameterized spatial kernel and leveraging structure-exploiting algebra on the model covariance matrices for computational tractability. Inference is made tractable through a collapsed variation…
Imputation method respects manifold structure for missing data.
problem Missing data imputation in high-dimensional data.
method Model-based imputation using mixture variational autoencoders and sampling-importance-resampling (SIR).
result Competitive performance and uncertainty quantification in imputations.
Method interprets GAN latent space via latent variable correlation analysis.
problem Understanding the inner workings of GANs.
method Analyzing correlation between latent variables and semantic contents in generated images.
result A method for controllable semantic content generation in GANs.
Sensor data has been playing an important role in machine learning tasks, complementary to the human-annotated data that is usually rather costly. However, due to systematic or accidental mis-operations, sensor data comes very often with a variety of missing values, resulting in considerable difficulties in the follow-…
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…
New framework aligns latent representations over-the-air using intelligent metasurfaces.
problem Heterogeneous transmitter-receiver models produce misaligned latent representations in semantic communication.
method Intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) emulate supervised and zero-shot semantic aligners directly in the wave domain.
result SIMs achieve up to 90% task accuracy in high SNR regimes, robust to low SNR.
Top2Vec finds topic vectors from documents and words without needing stop words or custom settings.
problem Topic modeling weaknesses, including needing known topics, stop words, and custom settings.
method Joint document and word semantic embedding to find topic vectors automatically.
result Top2Vec finds more informative and representative topics than probabilistic models.
SEMASIA provides a large dataset of latent representations for model comparison.
problem Difficulty in comparing semantic structures across different neural network models.
method Collection of latent representations from 1700 pretrained models across various benchmarks.
result Consistent semantic organization across models and datasets.
In this paper, we propose TopicRNN, a recurrent neural network (RNN)-based language model designed to directly capture the global semantic meaning relating words in a document via latent topics. Because of their sequential nature, RNNs are good at capturing the local structure of a word sequence - both semantic and syn…
Deep latent variable models (DLVMs) combine the approximation abilities of deep neural networks and the statistical foundations of generative models. Variational methods are commonly used for inference; however, the exact likelihood of these models has been largely overlooked. The purpose of this work is to study the g…
Proposes a deep latent variable model for MNAR data.
problem Missing data leading to biased results in MAR assumptions.
method Deep latent variable models with conditional no self-censoring.
result Establishes identifiability of MNAR data distribution.
MissBGM uses AI and Bayesian modeling for better missing data imputation.
problem Missing data imputation in data science, especially with uncertainty quantification.
method AI-powered Bayesian generative modeling with explicit modeling of missingness mechanisms.
result MissBGM provides principled posterior uncertainty over imputations and superior performance.
The ability of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) framework to learn generative models mapping from simple latent distributions to arbitrarily complex data distributions has been demonstrated empirically, with compelling results showing that the latent space of such generators captures semantic variation in the…
Proposes a deep learning model for imputing missing values in time series data.
problem Missing values in multivariate time series data.
method Deep sequential latent variable model using Gaussian process and VAE.
result Outperforms classical and deep learning methods in imputation accuracy and interpretability.
This paper takes a step towards temporal reasoning in a dynamically changing video, not in the pixel space that constitutes its frames, but in a latent space that describes the non-linear dynamics of the objects in its world. We introduce the Kalman variational auto-encoder, a framework for unsupervised learning of seq…
Proposes a new model to better handle overdispersed count time series.
problem Heterogeneous overdispersed count time series.
method Negative-Binomial Randomized Gamma Markov Process.
result Significantly improves predictive performance and fast convergence of inference algorithm.
New model predicts drug effects across various cell types using causal imputation.
problem Predict drug effects across different cell types given limited data.
method Introduces a novel SCM-based model class with latent factor structure and uses Synthetic Interventions estimator.
result Method outperforms other matrix completion approaches in drug repurposing dataset.
Proposes a method to infer causal effects from incomplete data using latent confounders.
problem Missing data complicates causal inference, especially for non-linear models.
method Uses variational autoencoders to learn latent confounders and incorporate missing values.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the method, especially for non-linear models.
Model financial time series with MOGP for imputation and prediction.
problem Impute missing financial data due to dependencies among multiple series.
method Use a multi-output Gaussian process (MOGP) with expressive covariance functions.
result The model outperforms other MOGPs and independent Gaussian process on real financial data.
When sensors collect spatio-temporal data in a large geographical area, the existence of missing data cannot be escaped. Missing data negatively impacts the performance of data analysis and machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we study deep autoencoders for missing data imputation in spatio-temporal problems. We…
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.
DIVE learns video representations even with missing data.
problem Missing data in video sequences.
method Disentangled Imputed Video autoEncoder (DIVE) with missingness latent variable.
result DIVE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in imputing and predicting missing video frames.
Improved generalization with semantic perturbations using normalizing flows.
problem Overfitting in deep neural networks training.
method Use normalizing flows for generating semantically meaningful perturbations in latent space.
result Achieved 96.6% test accuracy on CIFAR-10 with ResNet-18, outperforming existing methods.
We discuss memory models which are based on tensor decompositions using latent representations of entities and events. We show how episodic memory and semantic memory can be realized and discuss how new memory traces can be generated from sensory input: Existing memories are the basis for perception and new memories ar…
Introduces PCG for better counterfactual explanations in vision models.
problem Ambiguity in latent-space optimization methods for counterfactual explanations.
method Constructs counterfactuals by tracing geodesics under a perceptually Riemannian metric.
result PCG outperforms baselines and reveals hidden failure modes.
Unsupervised method discovers interpretable directions in GAN latent space.
problem Discovering interpretable directions in GAN latent space without supervision.
method Model-agnostic procedure to identify directions corresponding to semantic manipulations.
result Findings include directions for background removal and competitive saliency detection performance.
CADD improves generative quality by augmenting discrete diffusion with continuous latent space.
problem Loss of semantic information between denoising steps in discrete diffusion models.
method Introduces a framework that augments discrete state space with a continuous latent space, allowing for graded, informative masked tokens.
result CADD improves generative quality across text generation, image synthesis, and code modeling.
Fed-MIWAE improves federated learning by imputing missing data.
problem Handling missing data in federated learning models.
method Federated version of MIWAE, a deep latent variable model for missing data imputation.
result Fed-MIWAE achieves imputation accuracy comparable to centralized methods in federated scenarios.