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48 results for neural autoencoding

Sigmoid autoencoders can implement associative memory with certain conditions.

problem Implementing associative memory in neural networks.
method Theoretical analysis of overparameterized sigmoid autoencoders using the NTK and iterative maps.
result Overparameterized sigmoid autoencoders can have attractors in the NTK limit, leading to associative memory.

Regularization preserves topological data structure in autoencoders.

problem Ensuring topological data structure preservation in autoencoders.
method Regularization using Legendre nodes to preserve manifold embedding.
result Regularized autoencoders ensure one-to-one embedding of data manifolds.

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 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.

The ability of deep neural networks to generalize well in the overparameterized regime has become a subject of significant research interest. We show that overparameterized autoencoders exhibit memorization, a form of inductive bias that constrains the functions learned through the optimization process to concentrate a…

2018-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Imbalanced data classification problem has always been a popular topic in the field of machine learning research. In order to balance the samples between majority and minority class. Oversampling algorithm is used to synthesize new minority class samples, but it could bring in noise. Pointing to the noise problems, thi…

2019-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Feature extraction becomes increasingly important as data grows high dimensional. Autoencoder as a neural network based feature extraction method achieves great success in generating abstract features of high dimensional data. However, it fails to consider the relationships of data samples which may affect experimental…

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem of learning a manifold structure on a dataset is framed in terms of a generative model, to which we use ideas behind autoencoders (namely adversarial/Wasserstein autoencoders) to fit deep neural networks. From a machine learning perspective, the resulting structure, an atlas of a manifold, may be viewed as …

2018-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Identifying computational mechanisms for memorization and retrieval of data is a long-standing problem at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Our main finding is that standard overparameterized deep neural networks trained using standard optimization methods implement such a mechanism for real-valued…

2019-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Currently there are two predominant ways to train deep neural networks. The first one uses restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) and the second one autoencoders. RBMs are stacked in layers to form deep belief network (DBN); the final representation layer is attached to the target to complete the deep neural network. Autoe…

2016-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In this short paper, a neural network that is able to form a low dimensional topological hidden representation is explained. The neural network can be trained as an autoencoder, a classifier or mix of both, and produces different low dimensional topological map for each of them. When it is trained as an autoencoder, th…

2019-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on dynamics of non-linear autoencoders learning principal components.

problem Technical difficulty in studying non-linear autoencoders due to non-trivial correlations.
method Derive asymptotically exact equations for SGD training of shallow, non-linear autoencoders.
result Autoencoders learn principal components sequentially and tie weights are ineffective.

FisherNet extends Autoencoder using Fisher information for better data reconstruction.

problem Data reconstruction accuracy and model scalability in high-dimensional latent spaces.
method Introduces FisherNet architecture that uses Fisher information to quantify and account for latent space uncertainty.
result FisherNet produces more accurate reconstructions and scales better with latent space dimensions compared to VAE.

The study explores the compressive power of Boolean threshold autoencoders, finding that seven layers are necessary but three are not.

problem Understanding the compressive limits of Boolean threshold autoencoders.
method Investigation into the minimum number of layers and nodes required for autoencoders to accurately transform binary vectors.
result There exists a seven-layer autoencoder with a logarithmic middle layer size for any set of distinct vectors, but not a three-layer one.

There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our method masks the autoencoder's parameters to respect autoregressive constraints: ea…

2015-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

DefenseVGAE defends graph neural networks against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial structural perturbations.
method Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE) to reconstruct graph structure.
result DefenseVGAE reduces adversarial perturbations and boosts GCN performance.

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.

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and separating these manifolds. In this paper, we present a novel approach to solve th…

2017-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Model change points in time-series data with neural SDEs and variational autoencoders.

problem Modeling change points in time-series data with neural stochastic differential equations.
method Proposes a novel model formulation and training procedure based on the variational autoencoder framework, alternating between updating neural SDE parameters and change points.
result Demonstrates the expressive power of the proposed model in modeling both classical parametric SDEs and real datasets with distribution shifts.

Enhanced financial forecasting using supervised autoencoders with noise augmentation and triple labeling.

problem Improving investment strategy performance on noisy financial data.
method Supervised autoencoders with noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling.
result Supervised autoencoders with balanced noise augmentation and bottleneck size significantly boost strategy effectiveness.

Proposes a neural network autoencoder for smoothing and representation learning of functional data.

problem Lack of sufficient nonlinear representations in existing methods for functional data analysis.
method Develops a neural network autoencoder architecture to process functional data directly, learning both smoothing and representation.
result Outperforms traditional methods in prediction, classification, and computational efficiency.

Enhanced financial forecasting with supervised autoencoders for S&P 500 and cryptocurrencies.

problem Improving investment strategy performance in financial markets.
method Supervised autoencoders with noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling.
result Supervised autoencoders with balanced parameters significantly boost strategy effectiveness.

In this paper we introduce the deep kernelized autoencoder, a neural network model that allows an explicit approximation of (i) the mapping from an input space to an arbitrary, user-specified kernel space and (ii) the back-projection from such a kernel space to input space. The proposed method is based on traditional a…

2017-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Autoencoder neural networks reconstruct missing indoor environment data.

problem Missing data in building operation data sets.
method Three different autoencoder neural networks trained to reconstruct missing data.
result Reconstructing variables with average RMSEs of 0.42 °C, 1.30 % and 78.41 ppm.

New neural operators learn structured patterns efficiently.

problem Learning and representing complex, structured patterns in data.
method Sparse autoencoder neural operators (SAE-NOs) parameterize concepts as functions, enabling efficient and structured representation.
result SAE-FNOs learn localized patterns and generalize across different scales and discretizations.

AEGCN uses autoencoder constraints to improve graph node classification.

problem Node classification on graph domains with reduced information loss.
method Autoencoder-constrained graph convolutional network (AEGCN).
result Adding autoencoder constraints significantly improves graph convolutional network performance.

DECAF-GAD improves fairness in autoencoder-based GAD models without sacrificing performance.

problem Fairness in autoencoder-based GAD models for node-level anomaly detection.
method DECAF-GAD uses a structural causal model to disentangle sensitive attributes from learned representations, along with a fairness-guided loss function.
result DECAF-GAD significantly enhances fairness metrics while maintaining anomaly detection performance.