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Unsupervised approaches for learning representations invariant to common transformations are used quite often for object recognition. Learning invariances makes models more robust and practical to use in real-world scenarios. Since data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Gauri Gupta , Ritvik Kapila , Keshav Gupta , Ramesh Raskar

There is a vast literature on representation learning based on principles such as coding efficiency, statistical independence, causality, controllability, or symmetry. In this paper we propose to learn representations from sequence data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yue Song , Thomas Anderson Keller , Yisong Yue , Pietro Perona , Max Welling

This work describes a novel data-driven latent space inference framework built on paired autoencoders to handle observational inconsistencies when solving inverse problems. Our approach uses two autoencoders, one for the parameter space and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Emma Hart , Bas Peters , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Undersampling the k-space during MR acquisitions saves time, however results in an ill-posed inversion problem, leading to an infinite set of images as possible solutions. Traditionally, this is tackled as a reconstruction problem by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Kerem C. Tezcan , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

Computer vision research has long aimed to build systems that are robust to spatial transformations found in natural data. Traditionally, this is done using data augmentation or hard-coding invariances into the architecture. However, too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Utkarsh Singhal , Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia , Stella X. Yu

Convolutions encode equivariance symmetries into neural networks leading to better generalisation performance. However, symmetries provide fixed hard constraints on the functions a network can represent, need to be specified in advance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Alexander Immer , Mark van der Wilk

We develop a deep learning methodology for the simultaneous discovery of multiple nontrivial continuous symmetries across an entire labelled dataset. The symmetry transformations and the corresponding generators are modeled with fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Alexander Roman , Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Eyup B. Unlu

An effective way to model the complex real world is to view the world as a composition of basic components of objects and transformations. Although humans through development understand the compositionality of the real world, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 T. Takada , W. Shimaya , Y. Ohmura , Y. Kuniyoshi

Extraction of structure, in particular of group symmetries, is increasingly crucial to understanding and building intelligent models. In particular, some information-theoretic models of parsimonious learning have been argued to induce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hippolyte Charvin , Nicola Catenacci Volpi , Daniel Polani

Self-supervised learning is a powerful paradigm for representation learning on unlabelled images. A wealth of effective new methods based on instance matching rely on data-augmentation to drive learning, and these have reached a rough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Linus Ericsson , Henry Gouk , Timothy M. Hospedales

Deep metric learning maps visually similar images onto nearby locations and visually dissimilar images apart from each other in an embedding manifold. The learning process is mainly based on the supplied image negative and positive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Chang-Hui Liang , Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen

The high complexity of various inverse problems poses a significant challenge to model-based reconstruction schemes, which in such situations often reach their limits. At the same time, we witness an exceptional success of data-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 T. A. Bubba , G. Kutyniok , M. Lassas , M. März , W. Samek , S. Siltanen , V. Srinivasan

We propose to learn model invariances as a means of interpreting a model. This is motivated by a reverse engineering principle. If we understand a problem, we may introduce inductive biases in our model in the form of invariances.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 An-phi Nguyen , María Rodríguez Martínez

Reconstructing the 3D model of a physical object typically requires us to align the depth scans obtained from different camera poses into the same coordinate system. Solutions to this global alignment problem usually proceed in two steps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xiangru Huang , Zhenxiao Liang , Xiaowei Zhou , Yao Xie , Leonidas Guibas , Qixing Huang

We examine a class of deep learning models with a tractable method to compute information-theoretic quantities. Our contributions are three-fold: (i) We show how entropies and mutual informations can be derived from heuristic statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Marylou Gabrié , Andre Manoel , Clément Luneau , Jean Barbier , Nicolas Macris , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

We introduce a general method for learning representations that are equivariant to symmetries of data. Our central idea is to decompose the latent space into an invariant factor and the symmetry group itself. The components semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Gustaf Tegnér , Anastasiia Varava , Danica Kragic

Our goal is to extract meaningful transformations from raw images, such as varying the thickness of lines in handwriting or the lighting in a portrait. We propose an unsupervised approach to learn such transformations by attempting to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , John C. Duchi , Percy Liang

Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hanlin Yu , Berfin Inal , Georgios Arvanitidis , Soren Hauberg , Francesco Locatello , Marco Fumero

Autoencoders are certainly among the most studied and used Deep Learning models: the idea behind them is to train a model in order to reconstruct the same input data. The peculiarity of these models is to compress the information through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Gabriele Martino , Davide Moroni , Massimo Martinelli

We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a novel formulation of representation learning, using a joint distribution over the observations and latent state in an encoder/decoder framework. Our key principles are symmetry and mutual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Micha Livne , Kevin Swersky , David J. Fleet