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We develop a generalisation of disentanglement in VAEs---decomposition of the latent representation---characterising it as the fulfilment of two factors: a) the latent encodings of the data having an appropriate level of overlap, and b) the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Emile Mathieu , Tom Rainforth , N. Siddharth , Yee Whye Teh

Given an image dataset, we are often interested in finding data generative factors that encode semantic content independently from pose variables such as rotation and translation. However, current disentanglement approaches do not impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Tristan Bepler , Ellen D. Zhong , Kotaro Kelley , Edward Brignole , Bonnie Berger

Learning disentanglement aims at finding a low dimensional representation which consists of multiple explanatory and generative factors of the observational data. The framework of variational autoencoder (VAE) is commonly used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mengyue Yang , Furui Liu , Zhitang Chen , Xinwei Shen , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang

We propose a combination of a variational autoencoder and a transformer based model which fully utilises graph convolutional and graph pooling layers to operate directly on graphs. The transformer model implements a novel node encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Joshua Mitton , Hans M. Senn , Klaas Wynne , Roderick Murray-Smith

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is a probabilistic machine learning framework for posterior inference that projects an input set of high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional, latent space. The latent space learned with a VAE offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rafael Pastrana

We introduce MGP-VAE (Multi-disentangled-features Gaussian Processes Variational AutoEncoder), a variational autoencoder which uses Gaussian processes (GP) to model the latent space for the unsupervised learning of disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sarthak Bhagat , Shagun Uppal , Zhuyun Yin , Nengli Lim

We decompose the evidence lower bound to show the existence of a term measuring the total correlation between latent variables. We use this to motivate our $\beta$-TCVAE (Total Correlation Variational Autoencoder), a refinement of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ricky T. Q. Chen , Xuechen Li , Roger Grosse , David Duvenaud

Learning disentangled representations of real-world data is a challenging open problem. Most previous methods have focused on either supervised approaches which use attribute labels or unsupervised approaches that manipulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vikash Balasubramanian , Ivan Kobyzev , Hareesh Bahuleyan , Ilya Shapiro , Olga Vechtomova

The rising need for explainable deep neural network architectures has utilized semantic concepts as explainable units. Several approaches utilizing disentangled representation learning estimate the generative factors and utilize them as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

Good generative models should not only synthesize high quality data, but also utilize interpretable representations that aid human understanding of their behavior. However, it is difficult to measure objectively if and to what degree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Daniel Galperin , Ullrich Köthe

Generative modeling and self-supervised learning have in recent years made great strides towards learning from data in a completely unsupervised way. There is still however an open area of investigation into guiding a neural network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa

In this work, we propose a new generative model that is capable of automatically decoupling global and local representations of images in an entirely unsupervised setting, by embedding a generative flow in the VAE framework to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Xuezhe Ma , Xiang Kong , Shanghang Zhang , Eduard Hovy

With the explosion of graph-structured data, link prediction has emerged as an increasingly important task. Embedding methods for link prediction utilize neural networks to generate node embeddings, which are subsequently employed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jun Fu , Xiaojuan Zhang , Shuang Li , Dali Chen

Designing molecules with specific properties is a long-lasting research problem and is central to advancing crucial domains such as drug discovery and material science. Recent advances in deep graph generative models treat molecule design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuanqi Du , Xiaojie Guo , Amarda Shehu , Liang Zhao

Deep supervised neural networks trained to classify objects have emerged as popular models of computation in the primate ventral stream. These models represent information with a high-dimensional distributed population code, implying that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Irina Higgins , Le Chang , Victoria Langston , Demis Hassabis , Christopher Summerfield , Doris Tsao , Matthew Botvinick

As we enter the era of machine learning characterized by an overabundance of data, discovery, organization, and interpretation of the data in an unsupervised manner becomes a critical need. One promising approach to this endeavour is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa

Disentangled generative models map a latent code vector to a target space, while enforcing that a subset of the learned latent codes are interpretable and associated with distinct properties of the target distribution. Recent advances have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zinan Lin , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Disentangled representation learning finds compact, independent and easy-to-interpret factors of the data. Learning such has been shown to require an inductive bias, which we explicitly encode in a generative model of images. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Nicki Skafte Detlefsen , Søren Hauberg

Recently, generative graph models have shown promising results in learning graph representations through self-supervised methods. However, most existing generative graph representation learning (GRL) approaches rely on random masking across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xinyue Hu , Zhibin Duan , Xinyang Liu , Yuxin Li , Bo Chen , Chaojie Wang , Yilin He , Hongwei Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

Disentangled visual representations have largely been studied with generative models such as Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). While prior work has focused on generative methods for disentangled representation learning, these approaches do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Andrea Burns , Aaron Sarna , Dilip Krishnan , Aaron Maschinot