Unified framework for disentangled representations using mechanistic independence.
problem Identifiability of disentangled latent factors under statistical dependencies.
method Introduces mechanistic independence to characterize latent factors by their actions on observed variables, proposing various independence criteria.
result Establishes conditions for identifiability of latent subspaces without statistical assumptions.
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.
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.
Disentangled representations, where the higher level data generative factors are reflected in disjoint latent dimensions, offer several benefits such as ease of deriving invariant representations, transferability to other tasks, interpretability, etc. We consider the problem of unsupervised learning of disentangled rep…
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 findings show disentangled latent representations are not enough for robust compositional generalization.
problem Deep learning models struggle with compositional generalization, especially in out-of-distribution samples.
method Investigated a 2D Gaussian generation task with fully disentangled inputs, then forced disentangled latent representations into full-dimensional output space.
result Forcing disentangled latent representations into full-dimensional output space enables robust compositional generalization.
We address the problem of disentangled representation learning with independent latent factors in graph convolutional networks (GCNs). The current methods usually learn node representation by describing its neighborhood as a perceptual whole in a holistic manner while ignoring the entanglement of the latent factors. Ho…
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.
New principle for disentangling latent factors using sparse regularization.
problem Disentangling latent factors from complex data.
method Sparse regularization of latent mechanisms to induce disentanglement.
result Recovery of latent variables up to permutation under certain conditions.
Study shows disentanglement models learn correlations from data, impacting fairness.
problem Disentanglement models learn correlations in real-world data, affecting downstream applications.
method Empirical study on 4260 models, analyzing correlations in latent representations.
result Systematically induced correlations are learned by disentanglement models, impacting fairness.
q-VAE extracts disentangled latent spaces for robot control and dynamic systems.
problem Disentangled representation learning for latent spaces in robotics.
method Proposes q-VAE based on Tsallis statistics, improving disentanglement and latent dynamics.
result Improves disentangled representation while maintaining data reconstruction accuracy.
Agents solving multi-task classification learn disentangled representations.
problem Creating interpretable world models from multi-task data.
method Optimal multi-task classification tasks, noise, evidence accumulation.
result Disentangled representations emerge in multi-task learning.
UT module refines VAE latent space, improving disentanglement and interpretability.
problem Irregular latent distributions cause posterior collapse and misalignment in VAEs.
method UT module uses G-KDE clustering, GM modeling, and PIT to transform latent space into uniform distribution.
result UT module enhances disentanglement and interpretability of latent representations.
The paper tackles causal disentanglement with linear models and interventions.
problem Identify latent variables in a causal model from observed data.
method Use linear transformations and interventions to uniquely identify latent variables.
result A single intervention on each latent variable is sufficient for identifying the latent causal model.
New framework learns disentangled causal representations from observed labels.
problem Learning meaningful disentangled causal representations from observed data.
method ICM-VAE framework using flow-based diffeomorphic functions and causal disentanglement prior.
result Induces highly disentangled causal factors and improves robustness.
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.
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…
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.
Analogy-making is a key method for computer algorithms to generate both natural and creative music pieces. In general, an analogy is made by partially transferring the music abstractions, i.e., high-level representations and their relationships, from one piece to another; however, this procedure requires disentangling …
We develop a generalisation of disentanglement in VAEs---decomposition of the latent representation---characterising it as the fulfilment of two factors: a) the latent encodings of the data having an appropriate level of overlap, and b) the aggregate encoding of the data conforming to a desired structure, represented t…
This research improves representation learning for new domains with limited new supervision.
problem Learning representations that generalize well to new domains with minimal new data.
method Encourages linearity of factors of variation through learned linear transformations called latent canonicalizers.
result Reduces the number of observations needed to generalize to a similar target domain compared to supervised baselines.
Recently there has been an increased interest in unsupervised learning of disentangled representations using the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework. Most of the existing work has focused largely on modifying the variational cost function to achieve this goal. We first show that these modifications, e.g. beta-VAE, …
Paper addresses the disparity between sampled and mean representations in disentangled learning.
problem Disparity between sampled and mean representations in disentangled learning.
method Proposes a method to eliminate the disparity by proving and utilizing the relationship between total correlation of sampled and mean representations for multivariate normal distributions.
result Demonstrates that a factorized mean representation can have lower total correlation than the sampled representation.
Learning to disentangle the hidden factors of variations within a set of observations is a key task for artificial intelligence. We present a unified formulation for class and content disentanglement and use it to illustrate the limitations of current methods. We therefore introduce LORD, a novel method based on Latent…
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.
New method disentangles latent variables in nonstationary data.
problem Disentangling latent variables in nonstationary sequential data.
method NCTRL framework exploiting Markov assumption and temporal structure.
result Independent latent components can be recovered from nonlinear mixture without auxiliary variables.
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.
Unified framework for disentangled VAEs improves latent space interpretability.
problem Challenges in evaluating and interpreting latent representations, especially for diverse data types.
method Unified bfVAE framework, FVH-LT, DBSR-LS, GAS, LSSI.
result bfVAE provides more favorable trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction.
In this work we explore the generalization characteristics of unsupervised representation learning by leveraging disentangled VAE's to learn a useful latent space on a set of relational reasoning problems derived from Raven Progressive Matrices. We show that the latent representations, learned by unsupervised training …
New approach learns causally disentangled latent structures in generative models.
problem Fundamental tension between expressivity and structure in latent structure learning.
method Added a context module to an arbitrarily complex model to learn causally disentangled concepts.
result Causally disentangled representations can be composed for out-of-distribution generation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New method learns causal relationships in latent variables.
problem Disentangling causally related latent variables under supervision.
method Structural causal model (SCM) as prior for bidirectional generative model.
result Proposes DEAR method enabling causal controllable generation and disentanglement.
We propose the factorized action variational autoencoder (FAVAE), a state-of-the-art generative model for learning disentangled and interpretable representations from sequential data via the information bottleneck without supervision. The purpose of disentangled representation learning is to obtain interpretable and tr…
New framework TDRL identifies latent causal variables from sequential data.
problem Identify latent causal variables from sequential data.
method Proposes TDRL framework to recover time-delayed latent causal variables and identify their relations from measured sequential data.
result Identifies latent causal variables reliably from sequential data.
Paper proposes MIM-DRCFR to learn disentangled factors for better treatment effect estimation.
problem Learning disentangled factors precisely for individual-level treatment effect estimation.
method Multi-task learning framework with MI minimization criteria.
result MIM-DRCFR outperforms state-of-the-art methods in treatment effect estimation.
Paper proposes structured semantic perturbations to improve adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Manipulates semantic attributes via disentangled latent codes.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of structured semantic perturbations.
We would like to learn a representation of the data which decomposes an observation into factors of variation which we can independently control. Specifically, we want to use minimal supervision to learn a latent representation that reflects the semantics behind a specific grouping of the data, where within a group the…
A generative model with a disentangled representation allows for independent control over different aspects of the output. Learning disentangled representations has been a recent topic of great interest, but it remains poorly understood. We show that even for GANs that do not possess disentangled representations, one c…
Generative modeling of 3D shapes has become an important problem due to its relevance to many applications across Computer Vision, Graphics, and VR. In this paper we build upon recently introduced 3D mesh-convolutional Variational AutoEncoders which have shown great promise for learning rich representations of deformab…
Generative model disentangles dark matter halo properties.
problem Entangling physical factors in generative model latent spaces.
method Auxiliary-variable-guided framework with halo mass and concentration.
result Reveals mass-concentration scaling relation and identifies unusual halo formation.
SPLICE method disentangles shared and private latent variables from multi-view data.
problem Lack of methods to characterize nonlinear relationships and preserve geometric information in multi-view data.
method Neural network-based approach to infer disentangled, interpretable representations of shared and private latent variables.
result SPLICE yields more interpretable representations by preserving geometry and is more robust to incorrect latent dimensionality.
We address the problem of unsupervised disentanglement of latent representations learnt via deep generative models. In contrast to current approaches that operate on the evidence lower bound (ELBO), we argue that statistical independence in the latent space of VAEs can be enforced in a principled hierarchical Bayesian …
A framework for learning disentangled representations of symmetric environments.
problem Discovering and modelling the underlying structure of environments.
method Group representation theory for disentangled representations of dynamical environments.
result Our method enables accurate long-horizon predictions and correlates with disentanglement quality.
Paper shows identifiability of causal models with unobserved variables.
problem Identify latent variables in causal models with unobserved variables.
method Developed an autoencoding variational Bayes algorithm.
result Identifiability achieved with generalized faithfulness assumptions.