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most citedED-VAE: Entropy Decomposition of ELBO in Variational Autoencoders

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cs.CV2025

ViTaPEs: Visuotactile Position Encodings for Cross-Modal Alignment in Multimodal Transformers

Fotios Lygerakis, Ozan Özdenizci, Elmar Rückert

Tactile sensing provides local essential information that is complementary to visual perception, such as texture, compliance, and force. Despite recent advances in visuotactile rep…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

ED-VAE: Entropy Decomposition of ELBO in Variational Autoencoders

Fotios Lygerakis, Elmar Rueckert

Traditional Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are constrained by the limitations of the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) formulation, particularly when utilizing simplistic, non-analytic,…

cs.RO2024

Multimodal Visual-Tactile Representation Learning through Self-Supervised Contrastive Pre-Training

Vedant Dave, Fotios Lygerakis, Elmar Rueckert

The rapidly evolving field of robotics necessitates methods that can facilitate the fusion of multiple modalities. Specifically, when it comes to interacting with tangible objects,…

cs.RO2024

M2CURL: Sample-Efficient Multimodal Reinforcement Learning via Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Robotic Manipulation

Fotios Lygerakis, Vedant Dave, Elmar Rueckert

One of the most critical aspects of multimodal Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the effective integration of different observation modalities. Having robust and accurate representati…

cs.LG2023

CR-VAE: Contrastive Regularization on Variational Autoencoders for Preventing Posterior Collapse

Fotios Lygerakis, Elmar Rueckert

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is known to suffer from the phenomenon of \textit{posterior collapse}, where the latent representations generated by the model become independent…

cs.LG2021

Sequential Late Fusion Technique for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis

Debapriya Banerjee, Fotios Lygerakis, Fillia Makedon

Multi-modal sentiment analysis plays an important role for providing better interactive experiences to users. Each modality in multi-modal data can provide different viewpoints or…