Toshimitsu
Uesaka

Publications

HQ-VAE: Hierarchical Discrete Representation Learning with Variational Bayes

TMLR, 2024
Yuhta Takida, Yukara Ikemiya, Takashi Shibuya, Kazuki Shimada, Woosung Choi, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Naoki Murata, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Kengo Uchida, Yuki Mitsufuji, Wei-Hsiang Liao

Vector quantization (VQ) is a technique to deterministically learn features with discrete codebook representations. It is commonly performed with a variational autoencoding model, VQ-VAE, which can be further extended to hierarchical structures for making high-fidelity recon…

SAN: Inducing Metrizability of GAN with Discriminative Normalized Linear Layer

ICLR, 2024
Yuhta Takida, Masaaki Imaizumi*, Takashi Shibuya, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Naoki Murata, Yuki Mitsufuji

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn a target probability distribution by optimizing a generator and a discriminator with minimax objectives. This paper addresses the question of whether such optimization actually provides the generator with gradients that make its d…

Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion

ICLR, 2024
Yutong He, Naoki Murata, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Dongjun Kim, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Yuki Mitsufuji, J. Zico Kolter*, Ruslan Salakhutdinov*, Stefano Ermon*

Despite the recent advancements, conditional image generation still faces challenges of cost, generalizability, and the need for task-specific training. In this paper, we propose Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD), a training-free conditional generation framework th…

Consistency Trajectory Models: Learning Probability Flow ODE Trajectory of Diffusion

ICLR, 2024
Dongjun Kim, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Yutong He, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon*

Consistency Models (CM) (Song et al., 2023) accelerate score-based diffusion model sampling at the cost of sample quality but lack a natural way to trade-off quality for speed. To address this limitation, we propose Consistency Trajectory Model (CTM), a generalization encomp…

Diffiner: A Versatile Diffusion-based Generative Refiner for Speech Enhancement

Interspeech, 2023
Ryosuke Sawata*, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Takashi Shibuya, Shusuke Takahashi*, Yuki Mitsufuji

Although deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) methods outperform the previous non-DNN-based ones, they often degrade the perceptual quality of generated outputs. To tackle this problem, we introduce a DNN-based generative refiner, Diffiner, aiming to impro…

GibbsDDRM: A Partially Collapsed Gibbs Sampler for Solving Blind Inverse Problems with Denoising Diffusion Restoration

ICML, 2023
Naoki Murata, Koichi Saito, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Yuki Mitsufuji

Pre-trained diffusion models have been successfully used as priors in a variety of linear inverse problems, where the goal is to reconstruct a signal from noisy linear measurements. However, existing approaches require knowledge of the linear operator. In this paper, we prop…

FP-Diffusion: Improving Score-based Diffusion Models by Enforcing the Underlying Score Fokker-Planck Equation

ICML, 2023
Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon*

Score-based generative models learn a family of noise-conditional score functions corresponding to the data density perturbed with increasingly large amounts of noise. These perturbed data densities are tied together by the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE), a partial differentia…

DiffRoll: Diffusion-based Generative Music Transcription with Unsupervised Pretraining Capability

ICASSP, 2023
Kin Wai Cheuk, Ryosuke Sawata*, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Naoki Murata, Naoya Takahashi, Shusuke Takahashi*, Dorien Herremans*, Yuki Mitsufuji

In this paper we propose a novel generative approach, DiffRoll, to tackle automatic music transcription (AMT).Instead of treating AMT as a discriminative task in which the model is trained to convert spectrograms into piano rolls, we think of it as a conditional generative t…

Unsupervised vocal dereverberation with diffusion-based generative models

ICASSP, 2023
Koichi Saito, Naoki Murata, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida, Takao Fukui*, Yuki Mitsufuji

Removing reverb from reverberant music is a necessary technique to clean up audio for downstream music manipulations. Reverberation of music contains two categories, natural reverb, and artificial reverb. Artificial reverb has a wider diversity than natural reverb due to its…

SQ-VAE: Variational Bayes on Discrete Representation with Self-annealed Stochastic Quantization

ICML, 2022
Yuhta Takida, Takashi Shibuya, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Junki Ohmura*, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Naoki Murata, Shusuke Takahashi*, Toshiyuki Kumakura*, Yuki Mitsufuji

One noted issue of vector-quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) is that the learned discrete representation uses only a fraction of the full capacity of the codebook, also known as codebook collapse. We hypothesize that the training scheme of VQ-VAE, which involves some…

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