Latent Space
Latent space refers to a lower-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data, aiming to capture essential features while reducing computational complexity and improving interpretability. Current research focuses on developing efficient algorithms and model architectures, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), and diffusion models, to learn and manipulate these latent spaces for tasks ranging from anomaly detection and image generation to controlling generative models and improving the efficiency of autonomous systems. This work has significant implications across diverse fields, enabling advancements in areas like drug discovery, autonomous driving, and cybersecurity through improved data analysis, model efficiency, and enhanced control over generative processes.
Papers
Spacewalker: Traversing Representation Spaces for Fast Interactive Exploration and Annotation of Unstructured Data
Lukas Heine, Fabian Hörst, Jana Fragemann, Gijs Luijten, Miriam Balzer, Jan Egger, Fin Bahnsen, M. Saquib Sarfraz, Jens Kleesiek, Constantin Seibold
Mitigating Covariate Shift in Imitation Learning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Latent Space Generative World Models
Alexander Popov, Alperen Degirmenci, David Wehr, Shashank Hegde, Ryan Oldja, Alexey Kamenev, Bertrand Douillard, David Nistér, Urs Muller, Ruchi Bhargava, Stan Birchfield, Nikolai Smolyanskiy
Exploring the Lands Between: A Method for Finding Differences between AI-Decisions and Human Ratings through Generated Samples
Lukas Mecke, Daniel Buschek, Uwe Gruenefeld, Florian Alt
Enhancing Synthetic Training Data for Speech Commands: From ASR-Based Filtering to Domain Adaptation in SSL Latent Space
Sebastião Quintas, Isabelle Ferrané, Thomas Pellegrini
Trustworthy Intrusion Detection: Confidence Estimation Using Latent Space
Ioannis Pitsiorlas, George Arvanitakis, Marios Kountouris
Human Insights Driven Latent Space for Different Driving Perspectives: A Unified Encoder for Efficient Multi-Task Inference
Huy-Dung Nguyen, Anass Bairouk, Mirjana Maras, Wei Xiao, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Patrick Chareyre, Ramin Hasani, Marc Blanchon, Daniela Rus
LASERS: LAtent Space Encoding for Representations with Sparsity for Generative Modeling
Xin Li, Anand Sarwate