A new model learns latent spaces for graph data.
problem Scalability and expressivity limitations in graph generative models.
method Sequential Graph Variational Autoencoder (SGVAE) that learns latent spaces directly from graph data.
result Promising results on a cycle dataset, but need for permutation relaxation.
Paper proposes a new method to handle missing data in medical records using sequential variational autoencoders.
problem Missing data in medical records due to sensor off-times and uneven data collection.
method Sequential variational autoencoders (VAEs) with a new methodology called Shi-VAE.
result Shi-VAE achieves the best performance in terms of both metrics compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Improved SVAE models enhance sequential data prediction.
problem Challenges in implementing and using structured variational autoencoders.
method Modern machine learning tools, hardware acceleration, parallelization, automatic differentiation, exploiting structure in the prior.
result SVAEs outperform general alternatives in accuracy and efficiency.
This paper reviews and benchmarks DVAEs for sequential data.
problem Processing sequential data with temporal dependencies.
method Dynamical Variational Autoencoders (DVAEs) for sequential data.
result Experimental benchmark on speech analysis-resynthesis task.
Variational autoencoder models dynamic latent graphs for neural point processes.
problem Modeling event dynamics with changing trends over time.
method Sequential latent variable model with dynamic latent graphs.
result Higher accuracy in predicting inter-event times and event types.
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.
Gaussian process variational autoencoders improve disentanglement in time series data.
problem Learning disentangled representations from multivariate time series data.
method Model each latent channel with a Gaussian process prior and a structured variational distribution to capture temporal dependencies.
result Competitive performance on benchmark and real-world medical time series data.
Variational autoencoders were proven successful in domains such as computer vision and speech processing. Their adoption for modeling user preferences is still unexplored, although recently it is starting to gain attention in the current literature. In this work, we propose a model which extends variational autoencoder…
A new method scales Gaussian process variational autoencoders to handle high-dimensional time series.
problem Scalability issue in Gaussian process variational autoencoders (GPVAEs).
method Introducing Markovian GPs and using Kalman filtering and smoothing for linear time training.
result MGPVAE outperforms existing approaches in various tasks with high scalability.
A novel online GP model captures long-term memory in sequential data.
problem Capturing long-term memory in sequential data online.
method Integrates HiPPO framework into interdomain GP, leveraging time-varying orthogonal projections as inducing variables.
result OHSVGP outperforms existing online GP methods in predictive performance, long-term memory preservation, and computational efficiency.
Diffusion models generate music sequences without autoregressive loops.
problem Generating music sequences from symbolic data using diffusion models.
method Parameterize discrete symbolic data in continuous latent space, train diffusion model, generate sequences through reverse process.
result Strong unconditional generation and post-hoc conditional infilling compared to autoregressive models.
VHVM models financial time series with varying volatility.
problem Modeling heteroscedastic behavior in multivariate financial time series.
method Variational autoencoder and recurrent neural network for capturing relationships and temporal dynamics.
result VHVM outperforms GARCH and SV models on FX datasets.
A new method for online VI in SSMs using asymptotic contrast.
problem Lack of functionality for streaming data in standard VI methods for SSMs.
method Propose maximising an IWAE-type variational lower bound on the asymptotic contrast function using stochastic approximation.
result OSIWAE allows for online learning of model parameters and latent states.
Multi-sample, importance-weighted variational autoencoders (IWAE) give tighter bounds and more accurate uncertainty estimates than variational autoencoders (VAE) trained with a standard single-sample objective. However, IWAEs scale poorly: as the latent dimensionality grows, they require exponentially many samples to r…
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.
We present a factorized hierarchical variational autoencoder, which learns disentangled and interpretable representations from sequential data without supervision. Specifically, we exploit the multi-scale nature of information in sequential data by formulating it explicitly within a factorized hierarchical graphical mo…
Graphs are ubiquitous data structures for representing interactions between entities. With an emphasis on the use of graphs to represent chemical molecules, we explore the task of learning to generate graphs that conform to a distribution observed in training data. We propose a variational autoencoder model in which bo…
We propose a new family of optimization criteria for variational auto-encoding models, generalizing the standard evidence lower bound. We provide conditions under which they recover the data distribution and learn latent features, and formally show that common issues such as blurry samples and uninformative latent feat…
CTGAN synthesizes population data for travel behavior simulation.
problem Synthesizing population data for agent-based transportation modeling.
method Composite Travel Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN).
result Consistent and accurate generation of synthetic populations with tabular and sequential mobility data.
We present a representation learning algorithm that learns a low-dimensional latent dynamical system from high-dimensional \textit{sequential} raw data, e.g., video. The framework builds upon recent advances in amortized inference methods that use both an inference network and a refinement procedure to output samples f…
DD-VAE uses deterministic decoding for better latent code utilization in discrete data.
problem Inflexible decoders in VAEs lead to poor utilization of latent codes in discrete data.
method Proposed DD-VAE with deterministic decoding and new proposal distributions.
result DD-VAE improves latent code utilization and structure of learned manifold.
Variational autoencoders provide a principled framework for learning deep latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. In this work, we provide an introduction to variational autoencoders and some important extensions.
A new unpooling layer enhances graph generation in molecular models.
problem Efficient graph generation for complex models like molecules.
method Trainable unpooling layer that enlarges and restructures graphs.
result The unpooling layer improves graph generation in molecular models.
A new model tackles language generation issues by using discrete variational attention.
problem Information under-representation and posterior collapse in variational autoencoders.
method Proposes a discrete variational attention model with categorical distribution over attention mechanism.
result Enhances latent space for language generation and avoids posterior collapse.
This paper introduces Associative Compression Networks (ACNs), a new framework for variational autoencoding with neural networks. The system differs from existing variational autoencoders (VAEs) in that the prior distribution used to model each code is conditioned on a similar code from the dataset. In compression term…
Proposes a VAE with a discrete bottleneck for better text generation.
problem VAEs struggle with latent variable auto-regressive decoding in text generation.
method Introduces a discretized bottleneck to enforce latent feature matching in a compact space.
result Demonstrates improved text generation capabilities across various tasks.
The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular probabilistic generative model. However, one shortcoming of VAEs is that the latent variables cannot be discrete, which makes it difficult to generate data from different modes of a distribution. Here, we propose an extension of the VAE framework that incorporates a classi…
We propose the factorized action variational autoencoder (FAVAE), a state-of-the-art generative model for learning disentangled and interpretable representations from sequential data via the information bottleneck without supervision. The purpose of disentangled representation learning is to obtain interpretable and tr…
Improves naturalness in TTS samples using quantized VAE and auto-regressive prosody.
problem Discontinuous and unnatural speech from standard VAE priors.
method Discretized latent features using vector quantization (VQ), and separately trained autoregressive (AR) prior model.
result Significantly improves naturalness in random sample generation.
Self-reflective VAE improves inference and generative modeling without complex components.
problem Limitations of typical VAEs in inference and generative modeling.
method Introduces self-reflective inference, a new hierarchical structure that matches variational posterior to exact posterior.
result Self-reflective inference achieves state-of-the-art performance on binarized MNIST without autoregressive layers.
A standard Variational Autoencoder, with a Euclidean latent space, is structurally incapable of capturing topological properties of certain datasets. To remove topological obstructions, we introduce Diffusion Variational Autoencoders with arbitrary manifolds as a latent space. A Diffusion Variational Autoencoder uses t…
Deep generative models have achieved great success in unsupervised learning with the ability to capture complex nonlinear relationships between latent generating factors and observations. Among them, a factorized hierarchical variational autoencoder (FHVAE) is a variational inference-based model that formulates a hiera…
We extend Stochastic Gradient Variational Bayes to perform posterior inference for the weights of Stick-Breaking processes. This development allows us to define a Stick-Breaking Variational Autoencoder (SB-VAE), a Bayesian nonparametric version of the variational autoencoder that has a latent representation with stocha…
Method learns domain-specific representations without supervision.
problem Domain generalization without labeled data.
method Hierarchical variational autoencoder approach.
result Model generalizes to unseen domains without domain supervision.
Variational autoencoders model water Cherenkov detector data.
problem Modeling generative distribution of water Cherenkov detector data.
method Variational autoencoders and normalizing flows.
result Demonstrated capability of variational autoencoders for generative modelling.
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.
DAEs can generate images without additional loss terms, inheriting VAE properties.
problem Difficulty in using VAEs for practical generative modelling.
method Empirical exploration of DAEs for image generation without novel methods.
result DAEs can generate images successfully without additional loss terms.
Learning in the latent variable model is challenging in the presence of the complex data structure or the intractable latent variable. Previous variational autoencoders can be low effective due to the straightforward encoder-decoder structure. In this paper, we propose a variational composite autoencoder to sidestep th…
The usage of deep generative models for image compression has led to impressive performance gains over classical codecs while neural video compression is still in its infancy. Here, we propose an end-to-end, deep generative modeling approach to compress temporal sequences with a focus on video. Our approach builds upon…
This work addresses identifiability in sequential data with switching dynamics, introducing a new estimator.
problem Identifiability of sequential data with regime-switching dynamics under flexible assumptions.
method Introduces ΩSDS, a flow-based estimator for exact likelihood optimization. result Demonstrates improved disentanglement and more accurate forecasting compared to VAE-based estimators.
Study reveals the regularization effect of variational distributions in VAEs.
problem Understanding the regularization role of variational distributions in VAEs.
method Analyzed the role of variational family in VAEs and studied the regularization effect on local geometry.
result Uncovered the implicit regularizer in the β-VAE objective and proposed a deterministic autoencoding objective. Combines variational autoencoders with normalizing flows for faster training.
problem Training normalizing flow models like Glow is slow and requires deep architectures.
method Integrates Glow with a variational autoencoder to speed up training.
result The combined model achieves similar image quality and likelihood to Glow but trains faster.
A new method for effective VAE training using calibrated decoders.
problem Training VAEs requires hyperparameter tuning, leading to inefficiency.
method Calibrated decoders that learn uncertainty and automatically determine information retention.
result Calibrated decoders can simplify VAE training without heuristic modifications.
Paper proposes efficient multivariate spatial Fay-Herriot models using variational autoencoders.
problem Estimating population characteristics in small areas with limited data.
method Integrates multivariate spatial Fay-Herriot model with variational autoencoders to leverage spatial structure efficiently.
result Significant computational efficiency improvements for high-dimensional datasets.
In Bayesian machine learning, the posterior distribution is typically computationally intractable, hence variational inference is often required. In this approach, an evidence lower bound on the log likelihood of data is maximized during training. Variational Autoencoders (VAE) are one important example where variation…
Combines Bézier curves with Gaussian processes for better sequential data modeling.
problem Limited expressiveness of MDNs in probabilistic modeling of sequential data.
method Integrates Gaussian processes with probabilistic Bézier curves for full Bayesian inference.
result Improves expressiveness of MDNs by enabling full Bayesian inference.
We present two deep generative models based on Variational Autoencoders to improve the accuracy of drug response prediction. Our models, Perturbation Variational Autoencoder and its semi-supervised extension, Drug Response Variational Autoencoder (Dr.VAE), learn latent representation of the underlying gene states befor…
Proposes variational autoencoder for efficient MMSE estimation.
problem Efficient parameterized MMSE estimation for noisy observations.
method Variational autoencoder models data distribution, approximates MMSE.
result Proposed estimator performs well compared to state-of-the-art.