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We present a causal view on the robustness of neural networks against input manipulations, which applies not only to traditional classification tasks but also to general measurement data. Based on this view, we design a deep causal…

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The advancement of robots, particularly those functioning in complex human-centric environments, relies on control solutions that are driven by machine learning. Understanding how learning-based controllers make decisions is crucial since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Wei Xiao , Tim Seyde , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus

Recently there has been a significant interest in learning disentangled representations, as they promise increased interpretability, generalization to unseen scenarios and faster learning on downstream tasks. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Francesco Locatello , Gabriele Abbati , Tom Rainforth , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

Disentangling the encodings of neural models is a fundamental aspect for improving interpretability, semantic control and downstream task performance in Natural Language Processing. Currently, most disentanglement methods are unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Danilo S. Carvalho , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Yingji Zhang , Andre Freitas

Learning disentangled causal representations is a challenging problem that has gained significant attention recently due to its implications for extracting meaningful information for downstream tasks. In this work, we define a new notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aneesh Komanduri , Yongkai Wu , Feng Chen , Xintao Wu

Deep neural networks can obtain impressive performance on various tasks under the assumption that their training domain is identical to their target domain. Performance can drop dramatically when this assumption does not hold. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Gaël Gendron , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

In representation learning, a disentangled representation is highly desirable as it encodes generative factors of data in a separable and compact pattern. Researchers have advocated leveraging disentangled representations to complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Ruiqian Nai , Zixin Wen , Ji Li , Yuanzhi Li , Yang Gao

This paper presents a novel approach that leverages domain variability to learn representations that are conditionally invariant to unwanted variability or distractors. Our approach identifies both spurious and invariant latent features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hananeh Aliee , Ferdinand Kapl , Soroor Hediyeh-Zadeh , Fabian J. Theis

In recent years, discriminative self-supervised methods have made significant strides in advancing various visual tasks. The central idea of learning a data encoder that is robust to data distortions/augmentations is straightforward yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yuewei Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

A disentangled representation encodes information about the salient factors of variation in the data independently. Although it is often argued that this representational format is useful in learning to solve many real-world down-stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Francesco Locatello , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Olivier Bachem

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

Causal representation learning seeks to uncover causal relationships among high-level latent variables from low-level, entangled, and noisy observations. Existing approaches often either rely on deep neural networks, which lack…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-27 Wenjin Zhang , Yixin Wang , Yuqi Gu

Owing to the cross-pollination between causal discovery and deep learning, non-statistical data (e.g., images, text, etc.) encounters significant conflicts in terms of properties and methods with traditional causal data. To unify these data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Hang Chen , Xinyu Yang , Qing Yang

This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding how diffusion models can learn disentangled representations. Within this framework, we establish identifiability conditions for general disentangled latent variable models,…

Intelligent perception and interaction with the world hinges on internal representations that capture its underlying structure (''disentangled'' or ''abstract'' representations). Disentangled representations serve as world models, isolating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Pantelis Vafidis , Aman Bhargava , Antonio Rangel

Causal Neural Network models have shown high levels of robustness to adversarial attacks as well as an increased capacity for generalisation tasks such as few-shot learning and rare-context classification compared to traditional Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Preben M. Ness , Dusica Marijan , Sunanda Bose

Disentangled Representation Learning (DRL) aims to learn a model capable of identifying and disentangling the underlying factors hidden in the observable data in representation form. The process of separating underlying factors of variation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Si'ao Tang , Zihao Wu , Wenwu Zhu

Extracting structured representations from raw visual data is an important and long-standing challenge in machine learning. Recently, techniques for unsupervised learning of object-centric representations have raised growing interest. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Riccardo Majellaro , Jonathan Collu , Aske Plaat , Thomas M. Moerland

This paper proposes an efficient approach to learning disentangled representations with causal mechanisms based on the difference of conditional probabilities in original and new distributions. We approximate the difference with models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yuanpeng Li , Joel Hestness , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Liang Zhao , Kenneth Church

We propose a framework to analyze how multivariate representations disentangle ground-truth generative factors. A quantitative analysis of disentanglement has been based on metrics designed to compare how one variable explains each…

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