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Representation learning assumes that real-world data is generated by a few semantically meaningful generative factors (i.e., sources of variation) and aims to discover them in the latent space. These factors are expected to be causally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Jiaxin Yuan , Bang An , Yuancheng Xu , Yifan Yang , Furong Huang

Here we propose a novel model family with the objective of learning to disentangle the factors of variation in data. Our approach is based on the spike-and-slab restricted Boltzmann machine which we generalize to include higher-order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-10-22 Guillaume Desjardins , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

We study the problem of building models that disentangle independent factors of variation. Such models could be used to encode features that can efficiently be used for classification and to transfer attributes between different images in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Attila Szabó , Qiyang Hu , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

Conversation disentanglement aims to group utterances into detached sessions, which is a fundamental task in processing multi-party conversations. Existing methods have two main drawbacks. First, they overemphasize pairwise utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chengyu Huang , Zheng Zhang , Hao Fei , Lizi Liao

Disentangling complex data to its latent factors of variation is a fundamental task in representation learning. Existing work on sequential disentanglement mostly provides two factor representations, i.e., it separates the data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Omri Azencot

Disentanglement is a difficult property to enforce in neural representations. This might be due, in part, to a formalization of the disentanglement problem that focuses too heavily on separating relevant factors of variation of the data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Andrea Valenti , Davide Bacciu

Learning disentangled representations in sequential data is a key goal in deep learning, with broad applications in vision, audio, and time series. While real-world data involves multiple interacting semantic factors over time, prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tal Barami , Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Amos H. Hason , Rotem Ezra , Omri Azencot

We introduce a method to disentangle controllable and uncontrollable factors of variation by interacting with the world. Disentanglement leads to good representations and is important when applying deep neural networks (DNNs) in fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Yoshihide Sawada

Recently, researches related to unsupervised disentanglement learning with deep generative models have gained substantial popularity. However, without introducing supervision, there is no guarantee that the factors of interest can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Junxiang Chen , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Tabular data, widely used in various applications such as industrial control systems, finance, and supply chain, often contains complex interrelationships among its attributes. Data disentanglement seeks to transform such data into latent…

We consider the disentanglement of the representations of the relevant attributes of the data (content) from all other factors of variations (style) using Variational Autoencoders. Some recent works addressed this problem by utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Jozsef Nemeth

Recent theoretical work established the unsupervised identifiability of quantized factors under any diffeomorphism. The theory assumes that quantization thresholds correspond to axis-aligned discontinuities in the probability density of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Vitoria Barin-Pacela , Kartik Ahuja , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pascal Vincent

This paper explores self-supervised disentangled representation learning within sequential data, focusing on separating time-independent and time-varying factors in videos. We propose a new model that breaks the usual independence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Mathieu Cyrille Simon , Pascal Frossard , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Disentanglement via mechanism sparsity was introduced recently as a principled approach to extract latent factors without supervision when the causal graph relating them in time is sparse, and/or when actions are observed and affect them…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Sébastien Lachapelle , Simon Lacoste-Julien

It has been postulated that a good representation is one that disentangles the underlying explanatory factors of variation. However, it remains an open question what kind of training framework could potentially achieve that. Whereas most…

Causal disentanglement aims to learn about latent causal factors behind data, holding the promise to augment existing representation learning methods in terms of interpretability and extrapolation. Recent advances establish identifiability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Ryan Welch , Jiaqi Zhang , Caroline Uhler

In this paper, we interpret disentanglement as the discovery of local charts of the data manifold and trace how this definition naturally leads to an equivalent condition for disentanglement: commutativity between factors of variation. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Frank Qiu

Learning interpretable disentangled representations is a crucial yet challenging task. In this paper, we propose a weakly semi-supervised method, termed as Dual Swap Disentangling (DSD), for disentangling using both labeled and unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zunlei Feng , Xinchao Wang , Chenglong Ke , Anxiang Zeng , Dacheng Tao , Mingli Song

Disentanglement aims to recover meaningful latent ground-truth factors from the observed distribution solely, and is formalized through the theory of identifiability. The identifiability of independent latent factors is proven to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Vitória Barin-Pacela , Kartik Ahuja , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pascal Vincent

Recent text-to-image models produce high-quality images, yet text ambiguity hinders precise control when specific styles or objects are required. There have been a number of recent works dealing with learning and composing multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sonali Godavarthy , Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp , Tim-Felix Faasch , Maarten Bieshaar , Michael Moeller , Danda Pani Paudel