Variational Autoencoder Layer

Variational Autoencoder Layer

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) belong to a family of autoencoders with probabilistic properties, making them well suited for generating data by producing a smooth and continuous latent space. Despite being introduced over a decade ago, the method continues to be widely adopted in both research and industry for diverse applications.

Variational lossy autoencoder

Geometry-Preserving Encoder/Decoder in Latent Generative Models

arXiv:2501. 09876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset.

Variational Augmented Invertible Koopman Autoencoder for probabilistic time series forecasting

arXiv:2609.37435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural Koopman autoencoder models have been shown to successfully build a latent embedding with linear dynamics for arbitrary dynamical systems, enabli...

Embedded Variational Neural Stochastic Differential Equations for Learning Heterogeneous Dynamics

arXiv:2604. 00669v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study examines the challenges of modeling complex and noisy data related to socioeconomic factors over time, with a focus on data from various districts in Odisha, India.

Representing Clinical Conditions on Vital Signs from Healthy Individuals using Latent Modeling

The paper introduces a deep generative model using conditional variational autoencoders to augment vital sign data from healthy individuals so that it mimics patterns of specific clinical conditions. Trained on a publicly available ICU dataset, the model learns the underlying dynamics of ICU data and reshapes healthy data to align with target clinical labels. A proposed distance metric demonstrates that the generated samples are more aligned with intended clinical labels than baseline methods.

VOLTA: Improving Generative Diversity by Variational Mutual Information Maximizing Autoencoder

arXiv:2307.00852v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The natural language generation domain has witnessed great success thanks to Transformer models. Although they have achieved state-of-the-art gener...

Generalization in VAE and Diffusion Models: A Unified Information-Theoretic Analysis

arXiv:2506. 00849v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the empirical success of Diffusion Models (DMs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), their generalization performance remains theoretically underexplored, especially lacking a full consideration of the shared encoder-generator structure.

A Gentle Introduction to Autoencoders & Latent Space

Introduction Heavy computation is a well-known problem in various ML algorithms today, especially when generative AI is applied to text, images, and other unstructured data. One of the principal approaches to mitigate this problem is to compress input data into a lower-dimensional representation while preserving the main context.

eXact-Prior Variational Autoencoder (X-VAE): Learning Data-Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Priors for Latent Distributions

arXiv:2607. 01275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) commonly assume a standard isotropic Gaussian prior over the latent space, an assumption that often fails to capture the true distribution of latent representations for complex datasets.

DE-VAE: Revealing Uncertainty in Parametric and Inverse Projections with Variational Autoencoders using Differential Entropy

arXiv:2508.12145v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, autoencoders (AEs) have gained interest for creating parametric and invertible projections of multidimensional data. Parametric projectio...

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) Explained: From Theory to ELBO and the Reparameterization Trick

A clear, math-first walkthrough of how VAEs learn to generate new data The post Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) Explained: From Theory to ELBO and the Reparameterization Trick appeared first on Towards Data Science .