GUIDE-VAE: Advancing Data Generation with User Information and Pattern Dictionaries

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Autori principali: Bölat, Kutay, Tindemans, Simon
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author Bölat, Kutay
Tindemans, Simon
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Tindemans, Simon
contents Generative modelling of multi-user datasets has become prominent in science and engineering. Generating a data point for a given user requires employing user information, and conventional generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), often ignore this. This paper introduces GUIDE-VAE, a novel conditional generative model that leverages user embeddings to generate user-guided data. By leveraging shared patterns across users, GUIDE-VAE improves performance in multi-user settings, even under significant data imbalance. In addition to integrating user information, GUIDE-VAE incorporates a pattern dictionary-based covariance composition (PDCC) to improve the realism of generated samples by capturing complex feature dependencies. While user embeddings drive performance gains, PDCC addresses common issues such as noise and over-smoothing typically seen in VAEs. The proposed GUIDE-VAE was evaluated on a multi-user smart meter dataset characterised by substantial data imbalance across users. Quantitative results show that GUIDE-VAE performs effectively on both synthetic data generation and missing-record imputation tasks, while qualitative evaluations indicate that it produces more plausible and less noisy data. These results establish GUIDE-VAE as a promising tool for controlled, realistic data generation in multi-user datasets, with potential applications across domains that require user-informed modelling.
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spellingShingle GUIDE-VAE: Advancing Data Generation with User Information and Pattern Dictionaries
Bölat, Kutay
Tindemans, Simon
Machine Learning
Generative modelling of multi-user datasets has become prominent in science and engineering. Generating a data point for a given user requires employing user information, and conventional generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), often ignore this. This paper introduces GUIDE-VAE, a novel conditional generative model that leverages user embeddings to generate user-guided data. By leveraging shared patterns across users, GUIDE-VAE improves performance in multi-user settings, even under significant data imbalance. In addition to integrating user information, GUIDE-VAE incorporates a pattern dictionary-based covariance composition (PDCC) to improve the realism of generated samples by capturing complex feature dependencies. While user embeddings drive performance gains, PDCC addresses common issues such as noise and over-smoothing typically seen in VAEs. The proposed GUIDE-VAE was evaluated on a multi-user smart meter dataset characterised by substantial data imbalance across users. Quantitative results show that GUIDE-VAE performs effectively on both synthetic data generation and missing-record imputation tasks, while qualitative evaluations indicate that it produces more plausible and less noisy data. These results establish GUIDE-VAE as a promising tool for controlled, realistic data generation in multi-user datasets, with potential applications across domains that require user-informed modelling.
title GUIDE-VAE: Advancing Data Generation with User Information and Pattern Dictionaries
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03936