arXiv:2601. 19179v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autoencoders have long been considered a nonlinear extension of Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
By Qipeng Zhan, Zhuoping Zhou, Zexuan Wang, Li Shen
arXiv:2602. 10680v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many real-world datasets contain hidden structure that cannot be detected by simple linear correlations between input features.
By Vicente Conde Mendes, Lorenzo Bardone, C\'edric Koller, Jorge Medina Moreira, Vittorio Erba, Emanuele Troiani, Lenka Zdeborov\'a
arXiv:2609.37083v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the problem of recovering the governing ODE of a dynamical system from unstructured, high-dimensional observations such as images. Existing...
By Alessandro Trenta, Riccardo Massidda, Davide Bacciu, Sara Magliacane
arXiv:2608. 11435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forward and inverse modeling of parametric dynamical systems requires surrogate models that are not only accurate for state prediction, but also informative for parameter calibration.
By Qiyao Zhou, Xujia Zhu, Pierre Joli, Yu Cong, Sibo Cheng
arXiv:2605. 06938v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently Brown et al.
By Brian Charles Brown, Mauricio Munoz, Robert Bridges, David Grimsman, Sean Warnick
arXiv:2607. 05653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Principal Component Analysis or PCA-like properties (orthogonality, variance ranking) are seldom realized in deep autoencoder architectures.
By Jeanie Schreiber, Tyrus Berry, Zeeshan Ahmed
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.
By Qijun Chen, Shaofan Li
arXiv:2604.09331v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: A novel stability-enhanced Gaussian process variational autoencoder (SEGP-VAE) is proposed for indirectly training a low-dimensional linear time in...
By Carl R. Richardson, Jichen Zhang, Ethan King, J\'an Drgo\v{n}a
arXiv:2608.29867v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autoencoders are widely used for nonlinear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. While most common implementations rely on both nonlinear enc...
By Louen Pottier, Louis Lesueur, Anders Thorin
The paper introduces Conditional-Independence-Regularized Distributional Autoencoders, a framework for learning low-dimensional representations of mixed-type data that includes both numerical and categorical variables. It uses an energy-score objective for numerical variables, a likelihood objective for categorical variables, and an auxiliary conditional independence regularization term to capture dependencies between variable types. The authors provide theoretical analysis and demonstrate that the method improves categorical distribution recovery, achieves competitive overall conditional distribution recovery, and preserves mixed-type dependence structure on synthetic and real-world datasets.
By Siyuan Tang, Gongjun Xu, Ji Zhu
arXiv:2609.24241v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Uncovering latent variables and their causal relations from observed data is a fundamental yet challenging problem. Existing methods often rely on rest...
By Zijian Li, Ruichu Cai, Feng Xie, Xinshuai Dong, Haoyue Dai, Yuewen Sun, Yujia Zheng, Guangyi Chen, Yingyao Hu, Kun Zhang
The paper presents a theoretical analysis of symmetric autoencoders, a class of deep learning architectures frequently used in machine learning tasks. It distinguishes between different symmetric designs and shows that the reconstruction error of orthonormal symmetric autoencoders can be interpreted via the Eckart‑Young‑Schmidt theorem. Building on this insight, the authors propose an EYS‑based initialization strategy using repeated SVD, and validate its effectiveness through numerical experiments comparing it to conventional deep autoencoders.
By Simone Brivio, Nicola Rares Franco