Learning Multimodal Energy-Based Model with Multimodal Variational Auto-Encoder via MCMC Revision

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arXiv:2605.00644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-based models (EBMs) are a flexible class of deep generative models and are well-suited to capture complex dependencies in multimodal data. However, learning multimodal EBM by maximum likelihood requires Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling in the joint data space, where noise-initialized Langevin dynamics often mixes poorly and fails to discover coherent inter-modal relationships. Multimodal VAEs have made progress in capturing such in

Published 5 May 2026

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Title: Learning Multimodal Energy-Based Model with Multimodal Variational Auto-Encoder via MCMC Revision

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arXiv:2605.00644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-based models (EBMs) are a flexible class of deep generative models and are well-suited to capture complex dependencies in multimodal data. However, learning multimodal EBM by maximum likelihood requires Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling in the joint data space, where noise-initialized Langevin dynamics often mixes poorly and fails to discover coherent inter-modal relationships. Multimodal VAEs have made progress in capturing such in
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