Machine learning methods often need a large amount of labeled training data. Since the training data is assumed to be the ground truth, outliers can severely degrade learned representations and performance of trained models. Here we apply concepts from robust statistics to derive a novel variational autoencoder that is…
Bi-Lipschitz Autoencoder ensures robust manifold preservation.
problem Non-injective autoencoders lead to poor convergence and distorted latent representations.
method Injective regularization and bi-Lipschitz relaxation.
result BLAE consistently outperforms existing methods in manifold preservation.
RAEUFS selects features from data without labels, improving robustness to outliers.
problem Feature selection in high-dimensional data, especially in the presence of outliers.
method RAEUFS uses a deep autoencoder to learn nonlinear feature representations, improving robustness to outliers.
result RAEUFS outperforms state-of-the-art UFS methods in both clean and outlier-contaminated data settings.
PRAE identifies outliers and reconstructs inliers in autoencoders.
problem Accurately identifying anomalies in data.
method Probabilistic Robust AutoEncoder (PRAE) approach.
result PRAE effectively removes outliers and reconstructs inliers.
Improved SINDy autoencoder for identifying noisy dynamical systems.
problem Robust identification of noisy dynamical systems from data.
method Incorporates noise-separating neural network structures into SINDy autoencoder architecture.
result Accurately recovers latent dynamics and estimates measurement noise from noisy observations.
Develops a new robustness criterion for VAEs and provides theoretical guarantees.
problem Lack of formalization for robustness in VAEs.
method Introduces r-robustness criterion and derives reconstruction margins. result Derives theoretical guarantees for VAE robustness.
Certifiably robust VAEs are trained with bounds on input perturbations.
problem Ensuring VAEs are robust to adversarial attacks.
method Derive bounds on minimal perturbation size, control parameters, and train VAEs to meet criteria.
result Certifiably robust VAEs are more robust to attacks than standard VAEs.
Paper uses autoencoders for time series clustering with energy data.
problem Challenges in time series clustering, especially with outliers.
method Combines convolutional autoencoder and k-medoids for clustering.
result Improves clustering robustness to outliers and finer clusters.
Chart autoencoders learn latent features preserving manifold topology and geometry, with robust denoising capabilities.
problem Learning low-dimensional latent features of high-dimensional data sampled near a manifold.
method Chart autoencoders encode data into latent features on charts, preserving manifold topology and geometry.
result Chart autoencoders achieve a squared generalization error of n−d+22log4n under proper network architectures. Robust VAE detects anomalies in corrupted data.
problem Detect anomalies in data with high corruption.
method Robust Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with four modifications.
result Establishes robustness to outliers and suitability to low-rank modeling.
Study shows how to manipulate VAEs for attacks and assess their robustness.
problem Adversarial attacks on Variational Autoencoders (VAE).
method Examine modifications to VAEs and propose metrics for robustness.
result Metrics to quantify the robustness of VAEs to adversarial attacks.
RTVAE uses β-divergence to detect anomalies in tabular data robustly.
problem Outliers in tabular data affect VAE training and anomaly detection.
method Robust VAE with β-divergence for mixed categorical and continuous features.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on network traffic anomaly detection.
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…
Paper tackles robust domain adaptation without target domain data.
problem Learning domain invariant representations without target domain data.
method Integrates deep autoencoder and causal structure learning into a unified model.
result CAE learns causal representations using only source domain data.
We present a variation of the Autoencoder (AE) that explicitly maximizes the mutual information between the input data and the hidden representation. The proposed model, the InfoMax Autoencoder (IMAE), by construction is able to learn a robust representation and good prototypes of the data. IMAE is compared both theore…
Geometric interpretation improves VAE performance and robustness.
problem Improving Variational Autoencoder performance and robustness.
method Introducing a geometric perspective on VAEs, sampling from the Riemannian latent space.
result Improved generation and interpolations with competitive or better performance on benchmark datasets.
New method denoises and fills in missing image data without clean training data.
problem Denoising and inpainting images with noisy, incomplete data.
method Robust Hadamard Autoencoders trained on noisy, incomplete data.
result Autoencoders can perform denoising and inpainting simultaneously.
A CAE improves DNN's outlier and adversary defense.
problem Improving DNN's robustness against outliers and adversaries.
method Proposes a classification-autoencoder (CAE) that compresses samples into disjoint spaces and uses a decoder to classify and defend against adversaries.
result The CAE achieves state-of-the-art outlier recognition and near-lossless classification of adversaries.
Recently, a number of works have studied clustering strategies that combine classical clustering algorithms and deep learning methods. These approaches follow either a sequential way, where a deep representation is learned using a deep autoencoder before obtaining clusters with k-means, or a simultaneous way, where dee…
Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein they are fooled into reconstructing a chosen target image. However, how to defend against such attacks remains an open problem. We make significant advances in addressing this issue by introducing methods for produ…
Reliably detecting anomalies in a given set of images is a task of high practical relevance for visual quality inspection, surveillance, or medical image analysis. Autoencoder neural networks learn to reconstruct normal images, and hence can classify those images as anomalies, where the reconstruction error exceeds som…
p3VAE combines physics and machine learning for robust data representations.
problem Improving machine learning models' robustness to environmental factors of variation.
method Physics-informed variational autoencoder integrating physical knowledge with neural networks.
result p3VAE outperforms competing models in extrapolation and interpretability. Physics models integrated into VAEs improve generative performance and extrapolation.
problem Improving generative models with interpretability and robustness.
method Physics-based latent space in VAEs with regularized learning to balance physics and neural network components.
result Generative performance and extrapolation improvements demonstrated on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Autoencoders, as a dimensionality reduction technique, have been recently applied to outlier detection. However, neural networks are known to be vulnerable to overfitting, and therefore have limited potential in the unsupervised outlier detection setting. Current approaches to ensemble-based autoencoders do not generat…
In this work we address the problem of real-time dynamic medical MRI and X Ray CT image reconstruction from parsimonious samples Fourier frequency space for MRI and sinogram tomographic projections for CT. Today the de facto standard for such reconstruction is compressed sensing. CS produces high quality images (with m…
SAE-FiRE extracts key financial info from long documents, improving earnings surprise predictions.
problem Predicting earnings surprises from long, redundant financial documents.
method Sparse Autoencoder feature selection to filter out noise and identify key dimensions.
result SAE-FiRE significantly outperforms baseline approaches in financial datasets.
Network embedding represents nodes in a continuous vector space and preserves structure information from the Network. Existing methods usually adopt a "one-size-fits-all" approach when concerning multi-scale structure information, such as first- and second-order proximity of nodes, ignoring the fact that different scal…
Paper proposes a method to generate synthetic anomalies for robust anomaly detection.
problem Anomaly detection struggles with unbalanced data and rare anomalies.
method Two-level hierarchical latent space representation for feature distillation and synthesis.
result The method creates robust synthetic anomalies for training robust binary classifiers.
Paper studies autoencoder-based anomaly detectors' robustness to adversarial poisoning attacks.
problem Adversarial poisoning attacks on online-trained autoencoder-based anomaly detectors in ICSs.
method Proposes two algorithms for generating poison samples and evaluates them on synthetic and real-world ICS data.
result Autoencoder detectors are resilient to poisoning in the face of all relevant attacks in the SWaT dataset.
In spite of achieving revolutionary successes in machine learning, deep convolutional neural networks have been recently found to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and difficult to generalize to novel test images with reasonably large geometric transformations. Inspired by a recent neuroscience discovery revealing t…
Unsupervised learning is of growing interest because it unlocks the potential held in vast amounts of unlabelled data to learn useful representations for inference. Autoencoders, a form of generative model, may be trained by learning to reconstruct unlabelled input data from a latent representation space. More robust r…
Paper proposes a new Autoencoder for robustly encoding white matter streamlines.
problem Limited Autoencoder architectures ignore global streamline geometry and lack interpretability.
method Introduces Differentiable Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (D-VQ-VAE) for entire streamline bundles.
result Demonstrates superior performance in encoding and synthesis compared to state-of-the-art Autoencoders.
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.
Solves imaging inverse problems using autoencoding priors.
problem Ill-posed inverse problems in imaging.
method Joint Posterior Maximization with Autoencoding Prior (JPMAP).
result JPMAP converges to a stationary point and provides robust solutions.
GE-autoencoder identifies spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems.
problem Locating phase boundaries and identifying spontaneously broken symmetries in systems.
method Group-equivariant autoencoder using group theory to constrain parameters and learn invariant order parameters.
result GE-autoencoder accurately determines spontaneous symmetry breaking and estimates critical temperatures more efficiently.
Score matching fails to train VAEs robustly, revealing autoencoding loss insights.
problem Catastrophic failure of variational score matching on VAE models.
method Analysis of existing variational score matching objectives and their equivalence to autoencoding losses.
result Score matching methods fail to produce robust VAE models, predicting poor performance.
Proposes a new prior for VAEs to improve out-of-distribution detection.
problem Probabilistic generative models struggle with out-of-distribution detection.
method Introduces an exponentially tilted Gaussian prior for VAEs.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on ROC-AUC metric.
Enhanced autoencoders improve ROMs for PDEs by capturing essential properties.
problem Autoencoders struggle to capture essential properties for accurate ROMs.
method Introduced symmetric Convolutional AutoEncoders (CAEs) that preserve manifold properties.
result Symmetric CAEs yield more accurate latent trajectories and robust models.
Paper uses VAEs to detect radar targets in complex noise.
problem Detecting radar targets in compound clutter and thermal noise.
method Proposes a VAE architecture to distinguish radar targets from various noise types.
result The VAE outperforms classical detectors in challenging noise conditions.
VAE fails to encode typical samples, new method improves robustness.
problem VAE does not necessarily encode typical samples generated by its decoder.
method Alternative construction of variational approximation distribution, self-consistency approach.
result Encoders trained with self-consistency approach are robust to adversarial attacks.
We focus on the problem of unsupervised cell outlier detection and repair in mixed-type tabular data. Traditional methods are concerned only with detecting which rows in the dataset are outliers. However, identifying which cells are corrupted in a specific row is an important problem in practice, and the very first ste…
Improved physics-integrated generative models with noise robustness and fidelity.
problem Enhancing generative models to produce outputs that comply with physical laws and improve generalization.
method Integrating variational autoencoder with planar normalizing flow and attention mechanisms to learn latent posterior distributions and mitigate noise.
result Significant improvement in reconstruction quality and robustness against noise.
Enhances supervised visualization for unseen data using autoencoders and random forest.
problem Lack of generalization to unseen test sets in supervised dimensionality reduction.
method Combines autoencoder and random forest proximities for out-of-sample extension.
result 40% reduction in training time with 10% of training data, achieving consistent quality.
GMVAE improves open-set classification by clustering latent representations.
problem Improving open-set classification accuracy and robustness.
method Cooperative learning of reconstruction and clustering in the latent space of a GMVAE.
result Achieved an average F1 improvement of 29.5% in open-set classification.
Generative processes in biology and other fields often produce data that can be regarded as resulting from a composition of basic features. Here we present an unsupervised method based on autoencoders for inferring these basic features of data. The main novelty in our approach is that the training is based on the optim…
This paper describes InfoCatVAE, an extension of the variational autoencoder that enables unsupervised disentangled representation learning. InfoCatVAE uses multimodal distributions for the prior and the inference network and then maximizes the evidence lower bound objective (ELBO). We connect the new ELBO derived for …
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.
Proposes a model for generating survival trajectories and data.
problem Generating survival trajectories and data for new feature vectors.
method Autoencoder with specific structure, incorporating weighting scheme for robustness.
result Generates a prototype time-dependent trajectory for objects.