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20192026
most citedNVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

372 citations · 477 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

CANTO: CAD-Native Transformer Operators for AI-Aided Engineering

Daniel Leibovici, Nikola Borislavov Kovachki, Dawon Ahn +8

Modern engineering systems, from automobiles to aircraft, are designed by using precise, continuous parametric computer-aided design (CAD) models. Evaluating design changes through…

cs.LG2026

Demystifying Data-Driven Probabilistic Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Jean Kossaifi, Nikola Kovachki, Morteza Mardani +15

The recent revolution in data-driven methods for weather forecasting has lead to a fragmented landscape of complex, bespoke architectures and training strategies, obscuring the fun…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

Factorized Implicit Global Convolution for Automotive Computational Fluid Dynamics Prediction

Chris Choy, Alexey Kamenev, Jean Kossaifi +3

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is crucial for automotive design, requiring the analysis of large 3D point clouds to study how vehicle geometry affects pressure fields and drag…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Exploring the design space of deep-learning-based weather forecasting systems

Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Jean Kossaifi, Boris Bonev +4

Despite tremendous progress in developing deep-learning-based weather forecasting systems, their design space, including the impact of different design choices, is yet to be well u…

eess.IV2023

SMRD: SURE-based Robust MRI Reconstruction with Diffusion Models

Batu Ozturkler, Chao Liu, Benjamin Eckart +3

Diffusion models have recently gained popularity for accelerated MRI reconstruction due to their high sample quality. They can effectively serve as rich data priors while incorpora…

cs.LG2023★ 16 cited

Residual Corrective Diffusion Modeling for Km-scale Atmospheric Downscaling

Morteza Mardani, Noah Brenowitz, Yair Cohen +10

The state of the art for physical hazard prediction from weather and climate requires expensive km-scale numerical simulations driven by coarser resolution global inputs. Here, a g…

cs.LG2023★ 37 cited

A Variational Perspective on Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models

Morteza Mardani, Jiaming Song, Jan Kautz +1

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Score-based Diffusion Models in Function Space

Jae Hyun Lim, Nikola B. Kovachki, Ricardo Baptista +10

Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling. They consist of a forward process that perturbs input data with Gaussian white noise and a r…

cs.CV2022★ 12 cited

PhysDiff: Physics-Guided Human Motion Diffusion Model

Ye Yuan, Jiaming Song, Umar Iqbal +2

Denoising diffusion models hold great promise for generating diverse and realistic human motions. However, existing motion diffusion models largely disregard the laws of physics in…

stat.ML2021★ 12 cited

Score-based Generative Modeling in Latent Space

Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis, Jan Kautz

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently demonstrated impressive results in terms of both sample quality and distribution coverage. However, they are usually applied dire…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

A Contrastive Learning Approach for Training Variational Autoencoder Priors

Jyoti Aneja, Alexander Schwing, Jan Kautz +1

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are one of the powerful likelihood-based generative models with applications in many domains. However, they struggle to generate high-quality images…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

VAEBM: A Symbiosis between Variational Autoencoders and Energy-based Models

Zhisheng Xiao, Karsten Kreis, Jan Kautz +1

Energy-based models (EBMs) have recently been successful in representing complex distributions of small images. However, sampling from them requires expensive Markov chain Monte Ca…

stat.ML2020★ 372 cited

NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

Arash Vahdat, Jan Kautz

Normalizing flows, autoregressive models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep energy-based models are among competing likelihood-based frameworks for deep generative learning…

cs.CV2020

Contrastive Learning for Weakly Supervised Phrase Grounding

Tanmay Gupta, Arash Vahdat, Gal Chechik +3

Phrase grounding, the problem of associating image regions to caption words, is a crucial component of vision-language tasks. We show that phrase grounding can be learned by optimi…

cs.LG2019

UNAS: Differentiable Architecture Search Meets Reinforcement Learning

Arash Vahdat, Arun Mallya, Ming-Yu Liu +1

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demons…