arXiv · · Notable
The paper introduces the Unscented Autoencoder (UAE), a novel deep generative model based on the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework. The UAE uses the Unscented Transform (UT) for a more informative posterior representation compared to the reparameterization trick in VAEs. It replaces Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence with the Wasserstein distribution metric and demonstrates competitive performance in Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) scores.
Autoencoder · VAE · Unscented Transform · Generative Models · Wasserstein metric
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This paper introduces a self-supervised learning method for point cloud analysis using an upsampling autoencoder (UAE). The model uses subsampling and an encoder-decoder architecture to reconstruct the original point cloud, learning both semantic and geometric information. Experiments show the UAE outperforms existing methods in shape classification, part segmentation, and point cloud upsampling tasks.
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This paper introduces Adaptive Entropy-aware Optimization (AEO), a new framework to tackle Multimodal Open-set Test-time Adaptation (MM-OSTTA). AEO uses Unknown-aware Adaptive Entropy Optimization (UAE) and Adaptive Modality Prediction Discrepancy Optimization (AMP) to distinguish unknown class samples during online adaptation by amplifying the entropy difference between known and unknown samples. The study establishes a new benchmark derived from existing datasets with five modalities and evaluates AEO's performance across various domain shift scenarios, demonstrating its effectiveness in long-term and continual MM-OSTTA settings.
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The paper introduces the Prism Hypothesis, which posits a correspondence between an encoder's feature spectrum and its functional role, with semantic encoders capturing low-frequency components and pixel encoders retaining high-frequency information. Based on this, the authors propose Unified Autoencoding (UAE), a model that harmonizes semantic structure and pixel details using a frequency-band modulator. Experiments on ImageNet and MS-COCO demonstrate that UAE effectively unifies semantic abstraction and pixel-level fidelity, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
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The paper introduces UAE-3D, a multi-modal VAE for 3D molecule generation that compresses molecules into a unified latent space, maintaining near-zero reconstruction error. This approach simplifies latent diffusion modeling by eliminating the need to handle multi-modality and equivariance separately. Experiments on GEOM-Drugs and QM9 datasets show UAE-3D establishes new benchmarks in de novo and conditional 3D molecule generation, with significant improvements in efficiency and quality.