Many real-world sequential decision-making problems can be formulated as optimal control with high-dimensional observations and unknown dynamics. A promising approach is to embed the high-dimensional observations into a lower-dimensional latent representation space, estimate the latent dynamics model, then utilize this…
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Improves clustering performance by mixing latent representations.
problem Finding well-defined clusters in data representations.
method Mixing Consistent Deep Clustering method that encourages realistic interpolations and semantic consistency.
result Improved clustering performance across various models and datasets.
Deconfounds neural network representation similarity metrics to improve consistency and accuracy.
problem Confounding by population structure in similarity metrics like RSA and CKA.
method Covariate adjustment regression to adjust for confounders.
result Improves detection of semantically similar neural networks and consistency in transfer learning.
VAEs improve representation learning by inverting the data-generating process through self-consistency.
problem VAEs struggle to invert the data-generating process, yet often succeed in representation learning.
method Studied VAEs in the limit of near-deterministic decoders, proving self-consistency and showing ELBO convergence to a regularized log-likelihood.
result VAEs can perform independent mechanism analysis (IMA), recovering true latent factors under specific conditions.
Proposes a neural network method to improve consistencies in high dimensional data analysis.
problem Inconsistencies among dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization tasks in high dimensional data analysis.
method Consistent Representation Learning (CRL) neural network that performs NLDR transformations to satisfy LGP constraints.
result Improves consistencies in data interpretation through end-to-end task execution.
New method identifies causal relationships without strong assumptions.
problem Causal Representation Learning (CRL) is ill-posed due to representation and causal discovery issues.
method Identifiability based on grouping of observational variables, self-supervised estimation framework.
result Practical identifiability conditions without temporal structure, interventions, or weak supervision.
PointGMM learns hGMMs from point clouds for 3D shape representation.
problem Lack of shape priors and non-local information in point cloud representations.
method Neural network that learns hierarchical Gaussian mixture models (hGMMs) for 3D shapes.
result Generative model learns meaningful latent space for interpolations and novel shape synthesis.
EGAE improves graph clustering by utilizing GAE's representations in a way consistent with relaxed k-means theory.
problem Improving graph clustering performance using unsupervised methods.
method Designing an Embedding Graph Auto-Encoder (EGAE) that aligns with theoretical relaxed k-means to learn explainable representations.
result EGAE achieves superior graph clustering results compared to existing methods.
Beyond identifiability: Learning causal representations with few environments and finite samplesstat.ML
The paper shows how to learn causal representations with few environments and finite samples.
problem Learning causal representations from limited data and environments.
method Explicit, finite-sample guarantees with a logarithmic number of interventions.
result Consistent recovery of latent causal graph, mixing matrix, and unknown intervention targets.
Leveraging reference-only samples for two-sample testing under size asymmetry
problem Two-sample testing under size imbalance
method Adaptive aggregation of reference-dependent representations
result Strong performance with type I error control
Improved VAE learns disentangled representations with less supervision.
problem Learning disentangled representations is challenging.
method Semi-supervised disentanglement learning with label replacement.
result Significant improvement in disentanglement with minimal supervision.
Central to all machine learning algorithms is data representation. For multi-agent systems, selecting a representation which adequately captures the interactions among agents is challenging due to the latent group structure which tends to vary depending on context. However, in multi-agent systems with strong group stru…
STAR improves equivariant and invariant representation learning by routing projection heads.
problem Redundant feature learning in equivariant and invariant representation learning.
method Soft Task-Aware Routing (STAR) for projection heads specialization.
result Lower canonical correlations between invariant and equivariant embeddings.
Proposes a method to enforce nestedness in subspace learning methods.
problem Consistency between data representations when choosing different subspaces dimensions.
method Lifts Grassmannian optimization criteria to flag manifolds via nested projectors.
result Successfully addresses the nestedness issue in several machine learning methods.
We investigate sparse representations for control in reinforcement learning. While these representations are widely used in computer vision, their prevalence in reinforcement learning is limited to sparse coding where extracting representations for new data can be computationally intensive. Here, we begin by demonstrat…
LORL learns object-centric representations from vision and language.
problem Learning disentangled, object-centric scene representations from vision and language.
method LORL integrates unsupervised object discovery and segmentation with language input to learn object-centric concepts.
result LORL improves unsupervised object discovery methods and aids downstream tasks.
Proposes a deep learning method for effective data representation.
problem Constructing effective data representations for prediction.
method A deep dimension reduction approach to learning representations with sufficiency, low dimensionality, and disentanglement.
result The proposed deep nonparametric representation is consistent and performs better than existing methods.
Given datasets from multiple domains, a key challenge is to efficiently exploit these data sources for modeling a target domain. Variants of this problem have been studied in many contexts, such as cross-domain translation and domain adaptation. We propose AlignFlow, a generative modeling framework that models each dom…
Unpaired multi-domain causal representation learning is possible with sufficient conditions.
problem Learning shared causal representation from unpaired data across domains.
method Identify sufficient conditions for joint distribution and shared causal graph recovery.
result Practical method to recover shared latent causal graph from marginal distributions.
The standard loss function used to train neural network classifiers, categorical cross-entropy (CCE), seeks to maximize accuracy on the training data; building useful representations is not a necessary byproduct of this objective. In this work, we propose clustering-oriented representation learning (COREL) as an altern…
Graphs possess exotic features like variable size and absence of natural ordering of the nodes that make them difficult to analyze and compare. To circumvent this problem and learn on graphs, graph feature representation is required. A good graph representation must satisfy the preservation of structural information, w…
VAE fails to encode typical samples, new method improves robustness.
problem VAE does not necessarily encode typical samples generated by its decoder.
method Alternative construction of variational approximation distribution, self-consistency approach.
result Encoders trained with self-consistency approach are robust to adversarial attacks.
CLOCS uses contrastive learning to improve cardiac signal representations.
problem Lack of labelled data in cardiac signal analysis.
method Contrastive learning across space, time, and patients.
result CLOCS outperforms state-of-the-art methods and achieves strong generalization.
In this work, we take a representation learning perspective on hierarchical reinforcement learning, where the problem of learning lower layers in a hierarchy is transformed into the problem of learning trajectory-level generative models. We show that we can learn continuous latent representations of trajectories, which…
i-Mix improves contrastive learning across domains without domain-specific augmentations.
problem Improving contrastive representation learning for unlabeled data across diverse domains.
method i-Mix treats contrastive learning as a non-parametric classifier problem, mixing data in input and virtual label spaces.
result i-Mix consistently improves representation quality across image, speech, and tabular data domains.
We formalize the problem of learning interdomain correspondences in the absence of paired data as Bayesian inference in a latent variable model (LVM), where one seeks the underlying hidden representations of entities from one domain as entities from the other domain. First, we introduce implicit latent variable models,…
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enforces supervised information only at the output layer, and hidden layers are trained by back propagating the prediction error from the output layer without explicit supervision. We propose a supervised feature learning approach, Label Consistent Neural Network, which enforces…
New research shows hyperbolic embeddings are useful for global consistency tasks in graphs.
problem The usefulness of hyperbolic representations in graph learning tasks.
method Computed hyperbolic embeddings for node classification and link prediction tasks, addressing optimization issues at zero curvature.
result Hyperbolic embeddings are more effective for tasks requiring global consistency, while Euclidean models are superior for other tasks.
This paper aims to analyze knowledge consistency between pre-trained deep neural networks. We propose a generic definition for knowledge consistency between neural networks at different fuzziness levels. A task-agnostic method is designed to disentangle feature components, which represent the consistent knowledge, from…
A novel method for clustering multi-view data using dual representations.
problem Clustering multi-view data with consistent and unique information.
method One-step multi-view clustering method exploiting dual representations.
result The proposed method improves clustering performance on benchmark datasets.
Deep neural networks have frequently been used to directly learn representations useful for a given task from raw input data. In terms of overall performance metrics, machine learning solutions employing deep representations frequently have been reported to greatly outperform those using hand-crafted feature representa…
LCIT tests conditional independence using latent representations.
problem Detecting conditional independencies in statistical and machine learning tasks.
method Generative framework for learning latent representations of target variables X and Y, then testing for remaining dependencies.
result LCIT outperforms state-of-the-art baselines consistently under different metrics and settings.
Proposes a novel graph representation learning framework using contrastive methods.
problem Graph representation learning for graph-structured data.
method Leverages a contrastive objective at the node level, generating two graph views by corruption and learning node representations by maximizing agreement.
result Consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on transductive and inductive learning tasks.
Homomorphism Autoencoder -- Learning Group Structured Representations from Observed Transitionscs.LG
Autoencoder learns group representations from actions, improving future prediction accuracy.
problem Learning internal models of interactions with the real world.
method Homomorphism autoencoder with group representation trained on equivariance-derived loss.
result Agents can predict future actions with improved accuracy.
CoVAE improves VAEs by reducing training steps and improving quality.
problem Two-stage training overhead and increased sampling times.
method Consistency training of VAEs with progressive latent representations and time-dependent β parameter.
result CoVAE generates high-quality samples in one or few steps.
InstantEmbedding efficiently generates node representations with less computation and memory.
problem Efficiently generating local node representations for large graphs.
method Local PageRank computations in sublinear time.
result Significantly faster and less memory-intensive than traditional methods.
Study nonconcave portfolio choice with smooth ambiguity and Bayesian learning.
problem Nonconcave portfolio choice under smooth ambiguity and Bayesian learning.
method Developed a general framework for dynamic, non-concave asset allocation.
result Dynamic consistency achieved through a robust representation.
We make two theoretical contributions to disentanglement learning by (a) defining precise semantics of disentangled representations, and (b) establishing robust metrics for evaluation. First, we characterize the concept "disentangled representations" used in supervised and unsupervised methods along three dimensions-in…
POTA improves short text clustering by generating reliable pseudo-labels.
problem Limited discriminative representations in short texts.
method POTA uses instance-level attention and optimal transport for semantic consistency and cluster structure.
result POTA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in short text clustering.
Framework detects covert financial market manipulation using LOB representations.
problem Detecting covert financial market manipulation (spoofing) from complex anomaly patterns in multilevel prices.
method Cascaded contrastive representation learning of LOB data.
result Transformer-based architectures achieve state-of-the-art results in detection performance.
3D object recognition accuracy can be improved by learning the multi-scale spatial features from 3D spatial geometric representations of objects such as point clouds, 3D models, surfaces, and RGB-D data. Current deep learning approaches learn such features either using structured data representations (voxel grids and o…
Deep learning framework detects emotions from EEG data.
problem Detecting emotions from EEG signals.
method Temporal and spatial convolutional layers learn discriminative representations.
result TSception achieves 86.03% classification accuracy, significantly outperforming other methods.
Debiased contrastive learning improves representation learning by correcting for same-label sampling.
problem Sampling negative examples from truly different labels improves performance in self-supervised representation learning.
method Developed a debiased contrastive objective that corrects for the sampling of same-label datapoints without true labels.
result The proposed debiased contrastive objective consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across vision, language, and reinforcement learning benchmarks.
We present a transductive deep learning-based formulation for the sparse representation-based classification (SRC) method. The proposed network consists of a convolutional autoencoder along with a fully-connected layer. The role of the autoencoder network is to learn robust deep features for classification. On the othe…
ScoreMatchingRiesz improves debiased machine learning and policy effects estimation.
problem Improving debiased machine learning and policy effects estimation.
method Score matching and Riesz representer estimation.
result Estimates policy path for continuous treatments, improving interpretability.
We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a probabilistic auto-encoder for learning joint distributions over observations and latent variables. MIM reflects three design principles: 1) low divergence, to encourage the encoder and decoder to learn consistent factorizations of the same underlying distribution; 2…
We introduce a novel co-learning paradigm for manifolds naturally equipped with a group action, motivated by recent developments on learning a manifold from attached fibre bundle structures. We utilize a representation theoretic mechanism that canonically associates multiple independent vector bundles over a common bas…
MuSiCNet tackles irregularly sampled multivariate time series by treating them as a hierarchy of relatively regular series.
problem Irregularly sampled multivariate time series with missing values.
method Gradual coarse-to-fine approach with multi-scale and multi-correlation attention network.
result MuSiCNet improves ISMTS representation quality through hierarchical learning.