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48 results for unsupervised induction

Unsupervised machine translation---i.e., not assuming any cross-lingual supervision signal, whether a dictionary, translations, or comparable corpora---seems impossible, but nevertheless, Lample et al. (2018) recently proposed a fully unsupervised machine translation (MT) model. The model relies heavily on an adversari…

2018-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper summarizes unsupervised learning challenges for disentangled representations.

problem Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations without inductive biases.
method Theoretical and practical analysis of existing approaches.
result Unsupervised disentanglement is fundamentally impossible without inductive biases.

This work addresses encoding biases in neural networks by tailoring models with unsupervised losses.

problem Improving neural network representations and reducing the generalization gap.
method Inspired by transductive learning, the authors propose tailoring and meta-tailoring to optimize unsupervised losses during prediction time.
result Models trained with tailoring and meta-tailoring perform better on the task objective after adapting to unsupervised losses.

A novel algorithm for unsupervised graph representation learning combining coarsening and mutual information maximization.

problem Current limitations in unsupervised graph representation learning, especially in embedding new graphs and considering both micro- and macro-structures.
method Combines coarsening with mutual information maximization to produce high-quality embeddings.
result The algorithm produces high-quality embeddings that are competitive with state-of-the-art methods.

Simple framework decouples word alignment and multilingual embedding mapping.

problem Learning multilingual embeddings without supervision.
method Two-stage approach: 1) unsupervised word alignment, 2) mapping embeddings to shared space.
result Robust performance across various multilingual tasks, including distant languages.

Improves transferability of representations from source to target domains with weights and invariant representations.

problem Label shift between source and target domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Integrates weights and invariant representations to bound the target risk, highlighting the role of inductive bias.
result Empirical evidence shows that weak inductive bias makes adaptation more robust.

New method for embedding large networks without attributes, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

problem Learning embeddings from large-scale networks without domain-dependent attributes.
method Use predefined local encodings based on node degree frequencies at different distances.
result Inductive network embeddings generalize well across unseen or distant regions in the network.

CADE learns dual node representations for better generalization.

problem Transductive graph embeddings cannot generalize to unseen nodes or across different graphs.
method CADE combines real-time neighborhoods with neighbor-attentioned representation, preserving known node memory.
result CADE outperforms state-of-the-art methods in generalization and context-awareness.

This paper critically examines unsupervised disentangled representation learning, revealing challenges and limitations.

problem The difficulty of unsupervised learning of disentangled representations and the challenges in evaluation metrics.
method Theoretical analysis and a large-scale experimental study covering 8 datasets and 14000 models.
result Well-disentangled models cannot be identified without supervision, and different evaluation metrics disagree on what constitutes disentanglement.

We describe our language-independent unsupervised word sense induction system. This system only uses topic features to cluster different word senses in their global context topic space. Using unlabeled data, this system trains a latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model then uses it to infer the topics distribution…

2013-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning disentangled representations is considered a cornerstone problem in representation learning. Recently, Locatello et al. (2019) demonstrated that unsupervised disentanglement learning without inductive biases is theoretically impossible and that existing inductive biases and unsupervised methods do not allow to…

2019-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows mutual information can reward structure learning agents without expert systems.

problem Designing rewards for structure learning agents in natural language environments.
method Revisited Information Theory of unsupervised induction of phrase-structure grammars, using random sets of linguistic samples.
result Empirical evidence that simulated semantic structures can be distinguished from random ones by mutual information among their constituents.

This paper explains the theoretical inductive bias of Isolation Forest.

problem Lack of theoretical foundation explaining Isolation Forest's success.
method Formulated the growth process of iForest as a random walk, derived expected depth function using transition probabilities.
result Established a theoretical understanding of iForest's effectiveness and parameter adaptability.

LANCA uses ANM to learn latent causal factors without supervision.

problem Learning latent causal factors without supervision.
method LANCA employs a deterministic Wasserstein Auto-Encoder coupled with a differentiable ANM Layer.
result LANCA outperforms baselines on physics and photorealistic environments.

A new geometric method for clustering SPD data improves upon Euclidean and Riemannian approaches.

problem Skewed interpretations of SPD data in Euclidean analysis and computational inefficiency of Riemannian methods.
method Proposes a geometric method based on the Thompson metric for unsupervised clustering of SPD data.
result Demonstrates improved clustering results using inductive midrange centroid computation.

Geometric approach for unsupervised word embedding alignment.

problem Learning alignment between word embeddings of source and target languages.
method Formulates alignment as domain adaptation on the manifold of doubly stochastic matrices, employing Riemannian conjugate gradient algorithm.
result Empirically outperforms state-of-the-art methods on bilingual lexicon induction tasks.

R-SQAIR adds relational bias to sequential object attention models for better object interactions.

problem Traditional sequential multi-object attention models struggle with relational inferences.
method Proposes R-SQAIR, a relational extension of SQAIR with a parallel pairwise interaction module.
result Demonstrates gains in object relations and combinatorial generalization over sequential mechanisms.

We study a formalization of the grammar induction problem that models sentences as being generated by a compound probabilistic context-free grammar. In contrast to traditional formulations which learn a single stochastic grammar, our grammar's rule probabilities are modulated by a per-sentence continuous latent variabl…

2019-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Recurrent neural network grammars (RNNG) are generative models of language which jointly model syntax and surface structure by incrementally generating a syntax tree and sentence in a top-down, left-to-right order. Supervised RNNGs achieve strong language modeling and parsing performance, but require an annotated corpu…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Data representations that contain all the information about target variables but are invariant to nuisance factors benefit supervised learning algorithms by preventing them from learning associations between these factors and the targets, thus reducing overfitting. We present a novel unsupervised invariance induction f…

2018-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Auto-encoders have emerged as a successful framework for unsupervised learning. However, conventional auto-encoders are incapable of utilizing explicit relations in structured data. To take advantage of relations in graph-structured data, several graph auto-encoders have recently been proposed, but they neglect to reco…

2019-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We present Deep Graph Infomax (DGI), a general approach for learning node representations within graph-structured data in an unsupervised manner. DGI relies on maximizing mutual information between patch representations and corresponding high-level summaries of graphs---both derived using established graph convolutiona…

2018-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method uncovers intrinsic data structures for unsupervised domain adaptation.

problem Learning domain-aligned features can damage intrinsic target discrimination.
method Structurally Regularized Deep Clustering (H-SRDC) integrating structural source regularization.
result H-SRDC outperforms existing methods in image classification and semantic segmentation.

Vector representations of words have heralded a transformational approach to classical problems in NLP; the most popular example is word2vec. However, a single vector does not suffice to model the polysemous nature of many (frequent) words, i.e., words with multiple meanings. In this paper, we propose a three-fold appr…

2016-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model decouples global and local image representations without supervision.

problem Learning decoupled global and local image representations without supervision.
method Variational auto-encoding framework with invertible generative flow.
result The model effectively learns decoupled representations of images.

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.

Principal Components Analysis is a widely used technique for dimension reduction and characterization of variability in multivariate populations. Our interest lies in studying when and why the rotation to principal components can be used effectively within a response-predictor set relationship in the context of mode hu…

2014-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a method to learn graph representations without supervision.

problem Learning high-quality graph representations without external supervision.
method Graphical Mutual Information (GMI) to measure graph and hidden representation correlation.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised counterparts and sometimes supervised ones.

This work explores using deep NNs to learn quantum systems from probability distributions.

problem Learning quantum systems from limited probability distribution data.
method Using deep neural networks to reconstruct quantum Hamiltonian from probability distributions.
result Deep neural networks can learn quantum Hamiltonians from probability distributions.

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.

Interprets how intrinsic motivation shapes behavior in RL agents.

problem Understanding how intrinsic motivation influences behavior in reinforcement learning agents.
method Analyzed five RL agents in procedurally generated environments using various interpretability techniques.
result Curiosity-driven agents exhibit broader and more dynamic attention than extrinsically motivated agents.

Paper refines cross-lingual word embeddings using Manhattan norm.

problem Sensitivity of 2\ell_{2} norm loss function to outliers in CLWEs.
method Post-processing step using 1\ell_{1} norm to improve CLWEs.
result The 1\ell_{1} refinement substantially outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

Paper explores how knowledge distillation transfers inductive biases between models.

problem Transferring inductive biases between models for tasks with limited data.
method Knowledge distillation applied to models with different inductive biases (LSTMs vs. Transformers, CNNs vs. MLPs).
result Effect of inductive biases is transferred through knowledge distillation, impacting both performance and solution characteristics.