On the challenges and opportunities in generative ai

L Manduchi, K Pandey, R Bamler, R Cotterell… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The field of deep generative modeling has grown rapidly and consistently over the years.
With the availability of massive amounts of training data coupled with advances in scalable …

A review of artificial intelligence based biological-tree construction: priorities, methods, applications and trends

Z Zang, Y Xu, C Duan, J Wu, SZ Li, Z Lei - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.04815, 2024 - arxiv.org
Biological tree analysis serves as a pivotal tool in uncovering the evolutionary and
differentiation relationships among organisms, genes, and cells. Its applications span …

sctree: Discovering cellular hierarchies in the presence of batch effects in scrna-seq data

M Vandenhirtz, F Barkmann, L Manduchi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a novel method, scTree, for single-cell Tree Variational Autoencoders,
extending a hierarchical clustering approach to single-cell RNA sequencing data. scTree …

Multidomain neural process model based on source attention for industrial robot anomaly detection

B Yang, Y Huang, J Jiao, W Xu, L Liu, K **e… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Industrial robots are vital intelligent equipment in modern industries. Periodic maintenance,
which is costly and cannot prevent unexpected failures, is necessary to reduce the …

Two-Stage Approach for Targeted Knowledge Transfer in Self-Knowledge Distillation

Z Yin, J Pu, Y Zhou, X Xue - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge distillation (KD) enhances student network generalization by transferring dark
knowledge from a complex teacher network. To optimize computational expenditure and …

Weakly Augmented Variational Autoencoder in Time Series Anomaly Detection

Z Wu, L Cao, Q Zhang, J Zhou, H Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.03341, 2024 - arxiv.org
Due to their unsupervised training and uncertainty estimation, deep Variational
Autoencoders (VAEs) have become powerful tools for reconstruction-based Time Series …

Structured Generations: Using Hierarchical Clusters to guide Diffusion Models

JS Goncalves, L Manduchi, M Vandenhirtz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces Diffuse-TreeVAE, a deep generative model that integrates
hierarchical clustering into the framework of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models …

Hierarchical Clustering for Conditional Diffusion in Image Generation

JS Goncalves, L Manduchi, M Vandenhirtz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Finding clusters of data points with similar characteristics and generating new cluster-
specific samples can significantly enhance our understanding of complex data distributions …

PhyloVAE: Unsupervised Learning of Phylogenetic Trees via Variational Autoencoders

T **e, H Richman, J Gao, FA Matsen IV… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Learning informative representations of phylogenetic tree structures is essential for
analyzing evolutionary relationships. Classical distance-based methods have been widely …

From Logits to Hierarchies: Hierarchical Clustering made Simple

E Palumbo, M Vandenhirtz, A Ryser… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The structure of many real-world datasets is intrinsically hierarchical, making the modeling of
such hierarchies a critical objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning …