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 using the right objective function, significantly outperform the same architectures trained with purely supervised learning, especially when it comes to generalization.
@article{arxiv.1811.04784,
title = {Improving Generalization for Abstract Reasoning Tasks Using Disentangled Feature Representations},
author = {Xander Steenbrugge and Sam Leroux and Tim Verbelen and Bart Dhoedt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04784},
year = {2018}
}