arXiv Machine Learning

Autoencoders in Function Space

The paper introduces function‑space versions of autoencoders (FAE) and variational autoencoders (FVAE), analysing their theoretical properties and practical deployment. It highlights that the FVAE objective is well‑defined only when the data distribution aligns with the generative model, a restriction often met when data come from stochastic differential equations. In contrast, the FAE objective remains well‑defined in many cases where FVAE fails, and both can be paired with neural operator architectures to enable tasks such as inpainting, super‑resolution, and generative modelling of scientific data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Variational Autoencoder Layer

arXiv:2606. 25900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.

By Gananath R
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Patch-PODiff-ViT: Structured Latent Diffusion with Patchwise POD for Super-Resolution and Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2606. 31290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models enable probabilistic super-resolution and conditional generation, but pixel-space methods are computationally expensive and learned latent spaces often lack interpretable uncertainty quantification.

By Onkar Jadhav, Tim French, Matthew Rayson, Nicole L. Jones