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Several factors contribute to the appearance of an object in a visual scene, including pose, illumination, and deformation, among others. Each factor accounts for a source of variability in the data, while the multiplicative interactions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Mengjiao Wang , Zhixin Shu , Shiyang Cheng , Yannis Panagakis , Dimitris Samaras , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Self-supervised disentangled representation learning is a critical task in sequence modeling. The learnt representations contribute to better model interpretability as well as the data generation, and improve the sample efficiency for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Junwen Bai , Weiran Wang , Carla Gomes

The problem of feature disentanglement has been explored in the literature, for the purpose of image and video processing and text analysis. State-of-the-art methods for disentangling feature representations rely on the presence of many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ershad Banijamali , Amir-Hossein Karimi , Alexander Wong , Ali Ghodsi

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Learning interpretable and human-controllable representations that uncover factors of variation in data remains an ongoing key challenge in representation learning. We investigate learning group-disentangled representations for groups of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Linh Tran , Amir Hosein Khasahmadi , Aditya Sanghi , Saeid Asgari

Visual data can be understood at different levels of granularity, where global features correspond to semantic-level information and local features correspond to texture patterns. In this work, we propose a framework, called SPLIT, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Rujikorn Charakorn , Yuttapong Thawornwattana , Sirawaj Itthipuripat , Nick Pawlowski , Poramate Manoonpong , Nat Dilokthanakul

Learning a disentangled, interpretable, and structured latent representation in 3D generative models of faces and bodies is still an open problem. The problem is particularly acute when control over identity features is required. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

Disentangled representation learning aims to learn low-dimensional representations where each dimension corresponds to an underlying generative factor. While the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) is widely used for this purpose, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Di Fan , Yannian Kou , Chuanhou Gao

Automated discovery of early visual concepts from raw image data is a major open challenge in AI research. Addressing this problem, we propose an unsupervised approach for learning disentangled representations of the underlying factors of…

We construct an unsupervised learning model that achieves nonlinear disentanglement of underlying factors of variation in naturalistic videos. Previous work suggests that representations can be disentangled if all but a few factors in the…

Learning interpretable and disentangled representations is a crucial yet challenging task in representation learning. In this work, we focus on semi-supervised disentanglement learning and extend work by Locatello et al. (2019) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Weili Nie , Zichao Wang , Ankit B. Patel , Richard G. Baraniuk

Distributed learning and Edge AI necessitate efficient data processing, low-latency communication, decentralized model training, and stringent data privacy to facilitate real-time intelligence on edge devices while reducing dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lucas Heublein , Simon Kocher , Tobias Feigl , Alexander Rügamer , Christopher Mutschler , Felix Ott

While deep generative models have significantly advanced representation learning, they may inherit or amplify biases and fairness issues by encoding sensitive attributes alongside predictive features. Enforcing strict independence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yanning Shen

We propose a probabilistic generative model for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable, object-based representations of visual scenes. We use amortized variational inference to train the generative model end-to-end. The learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Andrea Dittadi , Ole Winther

Representation disentanglement is an important goal of representation learning that benefits various downstream tasks. To achieve this goal, many unsupervised learning representation disentanglement approaches have been developed. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jiageng Zhu , Hanchen Xie , Wael Abd-Almageed

Conditional Generative Models are now acknowledged an essential tool in Machine Learning. This paper focuses on their control. While many approaches aim at disentangling the data through the coordinate-wise control of their latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Victor Berger , Michèle Sebag

One major challenge of disentanglement learning with variational autoencoders is the trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction fidelity. Previous studies, which increase the information bottleneck during training, tend to lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo , Xiang Yang , Muhammad Awais , Sara Atito , Xingshen Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiang Yang

Given a dataset of images containing different objects with different features such as shape, size, rotation, and x-y position; and a Variational Autoencoder (VAE); creating a disentangled encoding of these features in the hidden space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mohammad Haghir Ebrahimabadi

Understanding the structure of complex, nonstationary, high-dimensional time-evolving signals is a central challenge in scientific data analysis. In many domains, such as speech and biomedical signal processing, the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Aamna Al Shehhi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) rely heavily on the compressed latent space provided by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for high-quality image generation. Recent studies have attempted to obtain generation-friendly VAEs by directly adopting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 John Page , Xuesong Niu , Kai Wu , Kun Gai