A novel disentangled graph autoencoder improves treatment effect estimation from networked observational data.
problem Treatment effect estimation from observational data is challenging due to unconfoundedness assumption and latent confounders.
method Proposes a disentangled variational graph autoencoder to disentangle latent factors and enforce factor independence.
result Extensive experiments show superior performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
While a wide range of interpretable generative procedures for graphs exist, matching observed graph topologies with such procedures and choices for its parameters remains an open problem. Devising generative models that closely reproduce real-world graphs requires domain knowledge and time-consuming simulation. While e…
We improve a graph generation model to accurately recover Barabási-Albert graph parameters.
problem Recover Barabási-Albert graph parameters from graph data.
method Use a disentanglement-focused deep autoencoding framework with a sequential LSTM decoder trained on graph data.
result Successfully recover Barabási-Albert graph parameters.
New method for disentangling latent factors with sparse dependencies.
problem Disentangling latent factors from observed variables and past factors.
method Mechanism sparsity regularization and sparse causal graphical model.
result Identifiability of latent factors up to a sparse causal graph.
The notion of disentangled autoencoders was proposed as an extension to the variational autoencoder by introducing a disentanglement parameter β, controlling the learning pressure put on the possible underlying latent representations. For certain values of β this kind of autoencoders is capable of encoding independ…
New method learns disentangled discrete representations using categorical variational autoencoders.
problem Learning disentangled representations from discrete latent spaces.
method Replaced standard Gaussian VAE with a categorical VAE to mitigate rotational invariance.
result Categorical distributions improve learning of disentangled representations.
Proposes TCWAE to learn disentangled representations using the Wasserstein Autoencoder.
problem Balancing reconstruction fidelity and disentanglement in learning representations.
method TCWAE (Total Correlation Wasserstein Autoencoder) using different KL estimators.
result Competitive results on data sets with known generative factors, and improved reconstructions on unknown factors.
Boxhead dataset tests autoencoder disentanglement in hierarchical data.
problem Evaluate disentanglement in hierarchical data.
method Introduced Boxhead dataset with hierarchically structured factors, evaluated autoencoder models.
result Hierarchical models outperform single-layer VAEs in disentangling factors.
Gaussian process variational autoencoders improve disentanglement in time series data.
problem Learning disentangled representations from multivariate time series data.
method Model each latent channel with a Gaussian process prior and a structured variational distribution to capture temporal dependencies.
result Competitive performance on benchmark and real-world medical time series data.
GCVAE improves disentanglement in VAEs while balancing reconstruction error.
problem Improving disentanglement in VAEs while maintaining low reconstruction error.
method Introduces three controllable Lagrangian hyperparameters to optimize reconstruction and KL divergence loss.
result GCVAE outperforms state-of-the-art models in disentanglement while balancing reconstruction.
CausalVAE learns causal relationships in VAE models for better data disentanglement.
problem Learning disentanglement of independent factors from observational data.
method CausalVAE framework with a Causal Layer to transform exogenous factors into causal endogenous ones.
result CausalVAE learns semantically interpretable causal representations and accurately identifies their DAG structure.
PRI-VAE learns disentangled representations by optimizing principle-of-relevant-information.
problem Learning disentangled representations under VAE framework remains unknown.
method Proposes PRI-VAE, a novel learning objective to optimize disentanglement.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of PRI-VAE on four benchmark datasets.
GCAE uses density estimation to achieve reliable disentanglement in latent space.
problem Disentangled learning representations suffer from reliability issues.
method GCAE uses Gaussian Channel Autoencoder with Dual Total Correlation (DTC) to avoid the curse of dimensionality.
result GCAE achieves highly competitive and reliable disentanglement scores.
Improved disentanglement through learned feature aggregation.
problem Disentangling latent factors in images.
method Variational autoencoder trained on regionally aggregated feature maps from ImageNet.
result 2nd place in NeurIPS 2019 disentanglement challenge.
Unsupervised mesh disentanglement separates identity and pose.
problem Geometric disentanglement for 3D deformable models.
method CFAN-VAE architecture using conformal factor and normal features.
result CFAN-VAE achieves state-of-the-art performance on unsupervised geometric disentanglement.
New technique learns causally disentangled representations for better generation.
problem Learning disentangled representations for accurate generation.
method Causally Disentangled Generation (CDG) approach with supervised regularization.
result CDG is necessary and sufficient for accurate disentangled generation.
Learning disentangled representation from any unlabelled data is a non-trivial problem. In this paper we propose Information Maximising Autoencoder (InfoAE) where the encoder learns powerful disentangled representation through maximizing the mutual information between the representation and given information in an unsu…
A new method uses hyperspherical latent spaces to disentangle data with periodic structures.
problem Disentangling data with periodic or cyclic underlying factors in Euclidean space.
method Diffusion Variational Autoencoder with a modified Evidence Lower Bound.
result The method can recover periodic true factors effectively.
Improves disentangled representation learning with multi-stage modeling.
problem Trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction quality in autoencoders.
method Penalty-based disentanglement learning followed by detail information modeling.
result Higher reconstruction quality than state-of-the-art methods with equivalent disentanglement.
DECAF-GAD improves fairness in autoencoder-based GAD models without sacrificing performance.
problem Fairness in autoencoder-based GAD models for node-level anomaly detection.
method DECAF-GAD uses a structural causal model to disentangle sensitive attributes from learned representations, along with a fairness-guided loss function.
result DECAF-GAD significantly enhances fairness metrics while maintaining anomaly detection performance.
Unified framework for generating data by modeling causal and correlational dependencies.
problem Modeling both causal and correlational dependencies among latent factors.
method Causal-Correlation Variational Autoencoder (C2VAE) framework.
result Improves generation quality, disentanglement, and intervention fidelity.
We decompose the evidence lower bound to show the existence of a term measuring the total correlation between latent variables. We use this to motivate our β-TCVAE (Total Correlation Variational Autoencoder), a refinement of the state-of-the-art β-VAE objective for learning disentangled representations, requiring n…
VCAE improves autoencoder quality on MNIST and CelebA.
problem Overfitting and poor generative/reconstruction quality in autoencoders.
method Proposes variance-constrained autoencoder (VCAE) to enforce variance constraint on latent distribution.
result VCAE outperforms Wasserstein Autoencoder and Variational Autoencoder in quality.
Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations involves uncovering of different factors of variations that contribute to the data generation process. Total correlation penalization has been a key component in recent methods towards disentanglement. However, Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence-based total correlatio…
VDA improves disentanglement of latent representations in complex signals.
problem Learning disentangled and interpretable representations in nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals.
method Variational decomposition autoencoding (VDA) framework, incorporating signal decomposition, contrastive self-supervised task, and variational prior approximation.
result DecVAEs surpass state-of-the-art VAE-based methods in disentanglement quality and generalization.
New metric for disentangling multivariate representations, accounting for more complex entanglements.
problem Current disentanglement metrics fail to detect entanglements involving more than two variables.
method Partial Information Decomposition framework to analyze information sharing and propose a new disentanglement metric.
result The proposed metric correctly identifies entanglements in high-dimensional spaces.
A new VAE model improves disentanglement with identifiable latent factors.
problem Learning disentangled representations without inductive biases.
method A novel VAE with a conditional prior over latent variables.
result Superior performance in disentanglement metrics.
In spite of achieving revolutionary successes in machine learning, deep convolutional neural networks have been recently found to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and difficult to generalize to novel test images with reasonably large geometric transformations. Inspired by a recent neuroscience discovery revealing t…
A new method for disentangling action sequences improves model stability.
problem Challenges in unsupervised disentanglement learning due to incomplete theories and abstract notions.
method Introducing disentangling action sequences and a novel fractional variational autoencoder (FVAE) framework.
result FVAE improves the stability of disentanglement for action sequences.
Method separates data into class and style factors using semi-supervised learning.
problem Separating generative factors of data into class and style vectors.
method Independent Vector Variational Autoencoders with semi-supervised learning and independence term.
result Improves classification performance and generation controllability.
This research explores a modified VAE model to learn disentangled representations for object recognition.
problem Learning invariant representations for object recognition from diverse appearances.
method Develops a modified Variational Autoencoder (β-VAE) to enforce disentangled representations using variational inference. result Demonstrates that the incompatibility between β-VAE's conditional independence and latent variable independence leads to non-monotonic inference performance. Improved autoencoder for F0-consistent voice conversion.
problem Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion with prosodic information leakage.
method Conditional autoencoder with information-constraining bottlenecks.
result Controlled F0 contour and improved speech quality.
New method disentangles shared and private latent factors in multimodal data.
problem Challenges in disentangling shared and private latent factors in multimodal data.
method Proposes a modification to existing multimodal Variational Autoencoders (MMVAE) to better handle modality-specific variation.
result Demonstrates improved robustness of modified MMVAE to modality-specific variation.
New framework for disentangling graph node and edge features.
problem Learning disentangled representations for attributed graphs with node and edge features.
method Proposes a novel variational objective and architecture for node and edge deconvolutions to disentangle latent factors.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the proposed model and its extensions on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Quantizes latent space to improve disentanglement in models.
problem Learning disentangled representations from unlabeled data.
method Quantizes latent space into discrete code vectors with a learnable scalar codebook and applies high weight decay regularization.
result Quantized-latent autoencoder (QLAE) outperforms prior work in disentanglement without sacrificing data reconstruction.
This work improves disentanglement in latent space models without sacrificing generation quality.
problem Trade-off between disentanglement and generation quality in latent space models.
method Manifold optimization with a sum of autoencoder and PCA reconstruction errors, on the Stiefel manifold.
result Improves disentanglement without sacrificing generation quality.
A framework for disentangling class-related and class-independent factors in data.
problem Learning disentangled representations in variational autoencoders.
method Attention mechanism in latent space, mixture models, Bhattacharyya coefficient, semi-supervised training.
result Disentangles class-related and class-independent factors of variation.
ControlVAE improves VAE performance by adding a controller to tune hyperparameters.
problem Existing VAE models struggle with KL vanishing and low reconstruction quality.
method ControlVAE combines a controller inspired by automatic control theory with VAE to improve performance.
result ControlVAE achieves better disentangling and reconstruction quality than existing methods.
DGA and DVGA learn disentangled graph representations to improve graph analysis.
problem Holistic graph auto-encoders fail to capture latent factors effectively.
method Design disentangled graph convolutional network and component-wise flow, impose independence constraints.
result Improved disentangled graph representations enhance graph analysis tasks.
New methods improve genetic studies of complex diseases.
problem Improving genetic studies of complex diseases using high-dimensional clinical data.
method Evaluation of unsupervised disentangled representation learning methods (autoencoders, VAE, beta-VAE, FactorVAE) for genetic association studies.
result FactorVAEs and beta-VAEs outperform standard VAEs and non-variational autoencoders in genetic studies of asthma and COPD.
DIVE learns video representations even with missing data.
problem Missing data in video sequences.
method Disentangled Imputed Video autoEncoder (DIVE) with missingness latent variable.
result DIVE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in imputing and predicting missing video frames.
DISCoVeR learns disentangled representations by separating shared and condition-specific factors.
problem Learning disentangled representations for multi-condition data.
method Dual-latent architecture, parallel reconstructions, max-min objective.
result DISCoVeR achieves improved disentanglement on various datasets.
Mean representations of VAEs are correlated but still useful for tasks.
problem Correlation between mean and sampled representations of VAEs.
method Selective posterior collapse to identify active and passive variables.
result Passive variables in mean representations are correlated but uncorrelated in sampled ones.
The problem of feature disentanglement has been explored in the literature, for the purpose of image and video processing and text analysis. State-of-the-art methods for disentangling feature representations rely on the presence of many labeled samples. In this work, we present a novel method for disentangling factors …
We present a framework for learning disentangled and interpretable jointly continuous and discrete representations in an unsupervised manner. By augmenting the continuous latent distribution of variational autoencoders with a relaxed discrete distribution and controlling the amount of information encoded in each latent…
SAMI learns disentangled representations from data.
problem Learning disentangled representations from data.
method Combines diffusion models and VAEs to learn disentangled representations.
result SAMI learns disentangled representations that are interpretable and useful.
MFCVAE clusters data over multiple facets, improving disentanglement and generation.
problem Clustering high-dimensional data like images over multiple characteristics.
method Variational autoencoder with hierarchical latent variables and Mixture-of-Gaussians priors.
result MFCVAE learns and clusters over multiple aspects of data in a disentangled manner.
Method evaluates disentanglement in DLVMs, including those not aligned with latent axes.
problem Evaluate disentanglement in DLVMs, especially those not aligned with latent axes.
method Proposes a statistical method to discover generative factors of a dataset.
result Empirically demonstrates the advantage of the method on two datasets.