arXiv Machine Learning

Stability Enhanced Gaussian Process Variational Autoencoders

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

Latent Dataset Distillation for Human Motion Prediction

The paper introduces a latent dataset distillation framework for human motion prediction, addressing the limitations of traditional gradient matching by incorporating a learned motion prior. Motions are compressed using a residual‑quantized variational autoencoder, and distillation updates only a latent bank while keeping the decoder frozen, ensuring synthetic motions remain plausible. Experiments on Human3.6M, CMU, and 3DPW datasets demonstrate that this method outperforms direct gradient matching in most settings and yields more realistic synthetic motions.

By Ge Tian, Guang Li, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama
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
Sep 14

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Bayesian Optimization

The paper investigates nonlinear dimensionality reduction for Bayesian optimisation (BO) by transforming high‑dimensional black‑box optimisation problems into a sequence of low‑dimensional latent‑space BO (LSBO) tasks. It extends earlier linear embedding approaches by using variational autoencoders (VAEs), deep metric loss, and adaptive retraining to better capture nonlinear structure, and couples LSBO with sequential domain reduction (SDR‑LSBO) to progressively narrow search domains. Experiments on GPU‑accelerated BoTorch with Matérn‑5/2 Gaussian‑process surrogates show that VAE‑based LSBO outperforms adaptive linear embeddings, and the authors provide a theoretical analysis of latent‑space error versus representation gap under PAC‑Bayes conditions.

By Luo Long, Coralia Cartis, Paz Fink Shustin
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Efficient Adaptation of ROMs for Unsteady Flows Using Data Assimilation

The paper presents a lightweight retraining strategy for a parameterized Reduced Order Model (ROM) that achieves full‑model accuracy using only a fraction of the computational effort and sparse observations. The ROM architecture combines a Variational Autoencoder for dimensionality reduction with a transformer network that evolves latent states while accounting for the Reynolds number as an external control variable. By leveraging the probabilistic VAE, the method generates trajectory ensembles and uncertainty estimates, and adapts to out‑of‑sample parameters through sparse data assimilation with an ensemble Kalman filter, focusing retraining on the autoencoder to correct latent manifold distortions.

By Isma\"el Zighed, Andrea N\'ovoa, Luca Magri, Taraneh Sayadi