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48 results for unsupervised representation

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.

Unsupervised learning models can be indistinguishable without identifiability, leading to unreliable representations.

problem Unsupervised learning models may be indistinguishable without identifiability, making it impossible to recover a ground truth generative model.
method Construction based on nonlinear independent component analysis theory to illustrate potential failure cases.
result Counterexamples show that identifiability is crucial for reliable unsupervised 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.

A major goal of unsupervised learning is to discover data representations that are useful for subsequent tasks, without access to supervised labels during training. Typically, this involves minimizing a surrogate objective, such as the negative log likelihood of a generative model, with the hope that representations us…

2018-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised learning representations generalize better than supervised learning under distribution shifts.

problem Robustness of unsupervised representations to distribution shift.
method Extensive evaluation on synthetic and realistic datasets, including controllable domain generalization datasets.
result Unsupervised representations learned from SSL and AE generalize better than supervised learning under various distribution shifts.

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.

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.

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.

Proposes an unsupervised graph neural network for entire graph representation.

problem Lack of unsupervised methods for entire graph representation.
method Combines hierarchical graph neural networks and mutual information maximization.
result Improves state-of-the-art performance on multiple graph level tasks.

Study on robustness of unsupervised representation learning in slightly misspecified settings.

problem Identify nonlinear representation learning in slightly misspecified settings.
method Formalize and investigate Independent Component Analysis (ICA) with observations generated by a mixing function close to a local isometry.
result Approximate identifiability of nonlinear ICA with almost isometric mixing functions.

Unsupervised feature learning has shown impressive results for a wide range of input modalities, in particular for object classification tasks in computer vision. Using a large amount of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature learning methods are utilized to construct high-level representations that are discriminative en…

2013-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel method integrates feature and topology views for unsupervised graph representation learning.

problem Lack of mutual information across feature and topology views in graph representation learning.
method Proposes a multi-view representation learning module and a common representation learning module using mutual information maximization and reconstruction loss minimization.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in integrating feature and topology views, achieving comparable or better performance than supervised methods.

This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.

problem Performing object segmentation without pixel or image-level labels.
method Used large-scale unsupervised GAN models to differentiate foreground from background.
result Demonstrated high-quality saliency masks and new state-of-the-art performance.

A new unsupervised contrastive learning framework improves time series representation learning.

problem Lack of labeled data in time series data.
method Proposes an unsupervised contrastive learning framework using a novel contrastive loss and data augmentation.
result Framework outperforms other approaches on univariate and multivariate time series, and benefits transfer learning.

Recently, kernelized locality sensitive hashcodes have been successfully employed as representations of natural language text, especially showing high relevance to biomedical relation extraction tasks. In this paper, we propose to optimize the hashcode representations in a nearly unsupervised manner, in which we only u…

2019-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

LOBSTUR-GNN adapts bootstrapping for unsupervised GNNs, improving node representation learning.

problem Hyperparameter tuning and lack of established methodologies for unsupervised GNNs.
method Adapts bootstrapping techniques for local graph dependencies and uses CCA for embedding consistency.
result 65.9% improvement in classification accuracy compared to uninformed hyperparameter selection.

IGT learns graph representations without supervision.

problem Building deep unsupervised graph representations.
method Generic complex-valued spectral graph architecture from Fourier transform generalization, greedy concave objective for discriminative and invariant features.
result IGT learns both discriminative and invariant features from graph topology.

The paper tackles adversarial robustness by maximizing worst-case mutual information.

problem Training robust machine learning models against adversarial inputs is challenging.
method Develops a notion of representation vulnerability and an unsupervised learning method to maximize worst-case mutual information.
result Proves a lower bound on minimum adversarial risk and supports robustness of representations.

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.

This paper reviews nonlinear ICA for disentangled representations in unsupervised learning.

problem Finding useful disentangled representations in unsupervised deep learning.
method Review of nonlinear ICA theory and algorithms for disentanglement.
result Nonlinear ICA can be shown to estimate useful disentangled representations.

GENESIS-V2 infers unordered object representations without iterative refinement.

problem Unsupervised learning of unordered object representations for complex images.
method Stochastic stick-breaking process for clustering pixel embeddings.
result GENESIS-V2 outperforms recent baselines in unsupervised image segmentation and scene generation.

New unsupervised learning technique learns independent kernels for better machine learning tasks.

problem Improving unsupervised representation learning for machine learning tasks.
method Stacking convolutional transforms using alternating proximal minimization scheme.
result DCTL outperforms shallow version CTL on benchmark datasets.

Studies show that the representations learned by deep neural networks can be transferred to similar prediction tasks in other domains for which we do not have enough labeled data. However, as we transition to higher layers in the model, the representations become more task-specific and less generalizable. Recent resear…

2019-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New unsupervised method selects hard negative samples for contrastive learning.

problem How to select good negative examples for contrastive learning without using true similarity information.
method Developed a new family of unsupervised sampling methods for hard negative selection.
result Improves downstream performance across multiple modalities.

DHOG improves unsupervised clustering accuracy on image benchmarks.

problem Local optima in mutual information maximisation lead to suboptimal representations.
method Deep hierarchical object grouping (DHOG) computes multiple discrete representations in a hierarchical order.
result DHOG achieves new state-of-the-art results on three main benchmarks.

Plan2Vec learns image representations without labels, improving control tasks.

problem Learning image representations without labeled data.
method Constructs a weighted graph using near-neighbor distances and extrapolates to global embedding.
result Plan2Vec achieves accurate long-term value estimates in control tasks with reduced computational and memory costs.

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised clustering which remains one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We propose the clustered generator model for clustering which contains both continuous and discrete latent variables. Discrete latent variables model the clus…

2019-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗