arXiv:2607. 23751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The usefulness of a variational autoencoder (VAE) depends on two properties of its latent space that are hard to obtain together: high encoding capacity in the individual latent variables, and a low-dimensional, disentangled organization of those variables.
arXiv:2607. 23480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAEs) transform high-dimensional, often noisy data into a compact latent representation, making downstream optimization more tractable.
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.
arXiv:2606. 09725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disentanglement, the separation of factors of variation in data using neural networks, remains a long-standing challenge in machine learning.
arXiv:2607. 05531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) frequently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which the approximate posterior converges to the prior, rendering the latent code uninformative.
arXiv:2410. 10137v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds.
arXiv:2607. 13612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) are the dominant design for latent world models, yet they are usually justified by empirical performance rather than a normative principle.
arXiv:2511. 02496v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study latent geometry as an explicit component of representation quality in data-scarce learning.
arXiv:2601. 21688v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Disentangled representation learning aims to map independent factors of variation to independent representation components.
arXiv:2607. 11883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compression is fundamental to intelligence.
Latent diffusion models achieve strong generative performance by operating in a compressed latent space produced by a variational autoencoder (VAE). However, it remains unclear whether all latent channels contribute equally to the diffusion process, or whether significant redundancy exists.
arXiv:2605. 22472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Winner-take-all (WTA) networks constitute a central circuit motif in cortical networks of the brain.
arXiv:2606. 27321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become a leading tool for interpreting the representations of vision foundation models, decomposing their polysemantic activations into a larger set of sparse, more monosemantic features.