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Empirical Variational Autoencoder

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Briefings

Empirical Variational Autoencoder (EVA) is a generative framework for continuous-valued sequences that learns autoregressive latent priors from training data. It replaces standard-Gaussian constraints with self-predicted priors, significantly reducing the latent distribution gap and enabling high-fidelity ancestral sampling for sequential data. Experiments show EVA achieves competitive generation quality with autoregressive diffusion baselines while maintaining faster inference times.

Key points

• EVA learns autoregressive latent priors empirically from training data using an additional single linear layer on top of Variational Autoencoders.
• Replacing standard-Gaussian constraints with self-predicted priors significantly alleviates the latent distribution gap between prior and posterior distributions.

Context

This article presents a general generative framework for continuous-valued sequences, offering a method to improve ancestral sampling for sequential data generation.

Limitations

Evidence is limited to image and sound synthesis experiments; inference speed is faster than diffusion baselines but specific performance metrics are not detailed.

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