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48 results for Hierarchical Representation Learning

Unsupervised method learns hierarchical graph representations without labels.

problem Lack of hierarchical graph representations and need for labeled data in GNNs.
method Maximizes mutual information between local and global graph representations.
result Comparable performance to supervised methods on graph classification benchmarks.

This paper improves disentanglement in VAEs by progressively learning hierarchical representations.

problem Compromised disentanglement in VAEs due to high-level abstraction extraction.
method Progressive learning of independent hierarchical representations from high to low levels.
result Improved disentanglement demonstrated on two benchmark datasets using new metrics.

We learn hierarchical slate representations for collaborative filtering.

problem Building models for recommendation systems with hierarchical slates.
method Learning low-dimensional embeddings of hierarchical slates using recursive composition rules.
result Improved recommendation system performance on a real-world dataset.

The joint optimization of representation learning and clustering in the embedding space has experienced a breakthrough in recent years. In spite of the advance, clustering with representation learning has been limited to flat-level categories, which often involves cohesive clustering with a focus on instance relations.…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Method learns hierarchical representations of samples and features simultaneously.

problem Hierarchical structures in samples and features not considered by existing methods.
method Jointly learns hierarchical representations via Tree-Wasserstein Distance alternating between samples and features.
result Method improves performance in link prediction and node classification tasks.

Proposes a graph pooling method leveraging node proximity for hierarchical graph representation learning.

problem Efficiently exploiting the geometry of graph data for hierarchical representation learning.
method Combines node proximity with kernel representation of topology and node features for adaptive node signal similarities evaluation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on graph classification benchmark datasets.

HCL learns shared and modality-specific latent representations for multimodal data.

problem Binary shared-private decomposition inadequately represents shared information across subsets of modalities.
method Hierarchical Contrastive Learning framework combining latent-variable formulation, structural sparsity, and contrastive objective.
result HCL accurately recovers hierarchical structure and improves predictive performance on multimodal data.

We propose to learn a hierarchical prior in the context of variational autoencoders to avoid the over-regularisation resulting from a standard normal prior distribution. To incentivise an informative latent representation of the data, we formulate the learning problem as a constrained optimisation problem by extending …

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Representation learning has become an invaluable approach for learning from symbolic data such as text and graphs. However, while complex symbolic datasets often exhibit a latent hierarchical structure, state-of-the-art methods typically learn embeddings in Euclidean vector spaces, which do not account for this propert…

2017-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a new method for learning word representations using hierarchical regularization in sparse coding inspired by the linguistic study of word meanings. We show an efficient learning algorithm based on stochastic proximal methods that is significantly faster than previous approaches, making it possible to perfor…

2014-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper uses deep learning to detect financial market regimes from correlation matrices.

problem Detecting financial market regimes from correlation dynamics.
method Representation learning on block hierarchical SPD correlation matrices using SPDNet, SPD-NetBN, and U-SPDNet models.
result Deep learning models overfit in financial market data, misleading performance metrics.

Transformer models perform slower than convolutional networks in learning hierarchical language structures.

problem Understanding how neural networks learn hierarchical language structures.
method Theoretical scaling laws and empirical validation of neural network performance.
result Convolutional networks outperform transformers in learning hierarchical language structures.

MHVAE learns cross-modality inference inspired by human cognition.

problem Cross-modality inference in multimodal data.
method Hierarchical multimodal generative model with modality-specific and joint-modality distributions.
result MHVAE performs on par with state-of-the-art models on multimodal datasets.

Deep networks learn hierarchical data by invariant representations.

problem How many examples are needed for deep networks to learn hierarchical data?
method Random Hierarchy Model: synthetic tasks inspired by language and images hierarchy.
result Deep networks learn by invariant representations and require a detectable number of correlations between low-level features and classes.

MxPool learns graph features from diverse graphs using a hierarchical structure.

problem Learning graph features from diverse graphs with varying properties and sizes.
method MxPool uses a multiplex structure with multiple graph convolution/pooling networks in a hierarchical learning structure.
result MxPool outperforms state-of-the-art methods on graph classification benchmarks.

New measure shows how LSTM models compose hierarchical representations.

problem Understanding how LSTM models capture compositional structure in language.
method Novel measure of interdependence between word meanings in LSTM internal gates.
result High interdependence can hurt generalization and reveals hierarchical structure learning.

Hyperbolic space outperforms Euclidean in learning hierarchical data.

problem Learning hierarchical data in Euclidean space requires exponentially many samples.
method Established geometric obstruction in Euclidean space and showed hyperbolic space's advantage.
result Hyperbolic space enables learning with O(mRlogm)O(mR \log m) samples, matching information-theoretic optimum.

Recent work in learning ontologies (hierarchical and partially-ordered structures) has leveraged the intrinsic geometry of spaces of learned representations to make predictions that automatically obey complex structural constraints. We explore two extensions of one such model, the order-embedding model for hierarchical…

2017-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

An important problem in multi-label classification is to capture label patterns or underlying structures that have an impact on such patterns. This paper addresses one such problem, namely how to exploit hierarchical structures over labels. We present a novel method to learn vector representations of a label space give…

2014-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

INVERT connects neural representations to human-understandable concepts.

problem Lack of understanding and statistical significance in existing explainability methods.
method Inverse Recognition (INVERT) approach that connects learned representations to human-understandable concepts.
result INVERT provides interpretable metrics and statistical significance for representation alignment.

UNTIE learns representations of coupled categorical data.

problem Challenges in learning from unlabeled categorical data with complex couplings.
method UNTIE approach for unsupervised representation learning of heterogeneous couplings.
result UNTIE significantly improves categorical data representations on 25 diverse datasets.

Network embedding is a method to learn low-dimensional representation vectors for nodes in complex networks. In real networks, nodes may have multiple tags but existing methods ignore the abundant semantic and hierarchical information of tags. This information is useful to many network applications and usually very sta…

2019-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

HiGraphDTI learns drug and target representations from molecular graphs to predict DTIs.

problem Inaccurate drug-target interaction prediction due to insufficient chemical information extraction.
method Hierarchical graph representation learning to extract chemical information from atoms, motifs, and molecules.
result HiGraphDTI outperforms state-of-the-art methods in DTI prediction and interaction interpretation.

Deep learning explained through spectral filtering of hierarchical features.

problem Understanding how deep neural networks learn useful representations from data.
method Neural Low-Degree Filtering (Neural LoFi) as a stylized limit of gradient-based training.
result Predicts how representations are selected layer by layer and explains emergence of concepts.

We present a novel method that can learn a graph representation from multivariate data. In our representation, each node represents a cluster of data points and each edge represents the subset-superset relationship between clusters, which can be mutually overlapped. The key to our method is to use formal concept analys…

2018-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks benefit from intermediate representations, reducing sample complexity.

problem Understanding how neural networks leverage intermediate representations for hierarchical learning.
method Fixed, randomly initialized neural network as a representation function, compared with raw inputs and other trainable networks.
result Neural representations can achieve improved sample complexities compared to raw inputs, especially for low-rank polynomials.

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.

By representing words with probability densities rather than point vectors, probabilistic word embeddings can capture rich and interpretable semantic information and uncertainty. The uncertainty information can be particularly meaningful in capturing entailment relationships -- whereby general words such as "entity" co…

2018-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

DS2CF-Net learns hierarchical representations with deep coupled factorization and enriched prior.

problem Learning deep hierarchical representations from data.
method Dual-constrained Deep Semi-Supervised Coupled Factorization Network (DS2CF-Net) with enriched prior.
result DS2CF-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance in representation learning and clustering.

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which generalize deep neural networks to graph-structured data, have drawn considerable attention and achieved state-of-the-art performance in numerous graph related tasks. However, existing GNN models mainly focus on designing graph convolution operations. The graph pooling (or downsampli…

2019-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes EM-HRNN model for better hierarchical language representation.

problem Learning hierarchical representations in natural language processing.
method Introduces latent indicator layer and EM algorithm for training.
result EM-HRNN model outperforms other RNN-based models in document classification.

DHRL learns interpretable features from visual data.

problem Limited use of deep learning in basic research for interpretable features.
method Generative model chaining, ladder network architecture, latent space regularization.
result DHRL generates disentangled hierarchical features from small datasets.

The paper extends fairness to hierarchical clustering, finding efficient algorithms with minimal loss.

problem Ensuring fairness in hierarchical clustering where data is recursively partitioned.
method Extending fairness to hierarchical clustering, developing simple, efficient algorithms for various objectives.
result Simple, efficient algorithms for fair hierarchical clustering with only a negligible loss in objective.

Agent learns diverse hierarchical structures in unknown environments.

problem Autonomous discovery and learning of diverse structures in unknown changing environments.
method Progressive construction of a Hierarchy of Observation Latent Models for Exploration Stratification (HOLMES).
result Agent can learn and reuse representations to progressively explore and discover diverse structures.

Hierarchical graph clustering is a common technique to reveal the multi-scale structure of complex networks. We propose a novel metric for assessing the quality of a hierarchical clustering. This metric reflects the ability to reconstruct the graph from the dendrogram, which encodes the hierarchy. The optimal represent…

2018-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Extends linear representation hypothesis to categorical and hierarchical concepts in LLMs.

problem Representing concepts without natural contrasts in large language models.
method Formalizes linear representation hypothesis for categorical and hierarchical concepts, proving relationships between concept hierarchy and representation geometry.
result Validated theoretical results on large language models, estimating representations for 900+ concepts.

SRHM explains deep learning's hierarchy and insensitivity to transformations.

problem Understanding how deep networks learn hierarchical and invariant representations.
method Introducing sparsity to generative hierarchical models of data.
result Hierarchical representations and insensitivity to transformations correlate strongly with deep network performance.