arXiv:2606. 00635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern VAEs are rarely trained with the pointwise likelihood implied by the standard $\beta$-VAE objective.
arXiv:2607. 17232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical rate-distortion (RD) theory has long established the fundamental limits of lossy compression by quantifying the minimum number of bits required to represent a source under a prescribed distortion constraint.
arXiv:2606. 04280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive learning has become a leading paradigm for self-supervised representation learning, yet the conditions under which it recovers meaningful latent geometry remain incompletely understood.
arXiv:2501. 09876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset.
arXiv:2603. 01568v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient coding theory predicts that biological perceptual systems compress sensory input optimally under resource constraints, with the systematic structure of errors reflecting the geometry of that compression.
arXiv:2608.29335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent generative models typically follow a two-stage pipeline, training a variational autoencoder for reconstruction and then a generative model on th...
arXiv:2606. 19802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image restoration faces a fundamental tradeoff: methods that minimize error produce blurry reconstructions, while those that maximize perceptual quality yield sharp but less faithful images.
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:2505. 22839v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies suggest that diffusion models significantly improve the empirical adversarial robustness of deep neural network models.
The paper investigates how fine‑tuning pretrained visual encoders for faithful image reconstruction affects diffusion models that operate in the resulting latent space. It finds that such fine‑tuning reduces the effective dimensionality of the latent representation, causing standard velocity‑prediction flow‑matching to fit noise outside the low‑dimensional signal manifold and making optimization inefficient. Consequently, the authors propose using a clean‑data ($oldsymbol{x}_{0}$) parameterization, which focuses learning on the signal manifold and consistently improves text‑to‑image generation across multiple strong‑reconstruction encoders.
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:2602. 02948v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inverse problems are fundamental to many scientific and engineering disciplines; they arise when one seeks to reconstruct hidden, underlying quantities from noisy measurements.
arXiv:2412. 08394v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial samples crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to clean data, potentially leading to incorrect and dangerous predictions.