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Disentangled representation learning aims to map independent factors of variation to independent representation components. On one hand, purely unsupervised approaches have proven successful on fully disentangled synthetic data, but fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Alexandre Myara , Nicolas Bourriez , Thomas Boyer , Thomas Lemercier , Ihab Bendidi , Auguste Genovesio

Deep neural networks have demonstrated their ability to automatically extract meaningful features from data. However, in supervised learning, information specific to the dataset used for training, but irrelevant to the task at hand, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 David Bertoin , Emmanuel Rachelson

As the quality of synthetic images improves, identifying the underlying concepts of model-generated images is becoming increasingly crucial for copyright protection and ensuring model transparency. Existing methods achieve this attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zongfang Liu , Guangyi Chen , Boyang Sun , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

Image classification models tend to make decisions based on peripheral attributes of data items that have strong correlation with a target variable (i.e., dataset bias). These biased models suffer from the poor generalization capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jungsoo Lee , Eungyeup Kim , Juyoung Lee , Jihyeon Lee , Jaegul Choo

The process of generating data such as images is controlled by independent and unknown factors of variation. The retrieval of these variables has been studied extensively in the disentanglement, causal representation learning, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Gaël Gendron , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

Unsupervised disentanglement of content and transformation is significantly important for analyzing shape-focused scientific image datasets, given their efficacy in solving downstream image-based shape-analyses tasks. The existing relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mostofa Rafid Uddin , Min Xu

The key idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is that real-world data is generated by a few explanatory factors of variation which can be recovered by unsupervised learning algorithms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Francesco Locatello , Stefan Bauer , Mario Lucic , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

Learning visual representations with interpretable features, i.e., disentangled representations, remains a challenging problem. Existing methods demonstrate some success but are hard to apply to large-scale vision datasets like ImageNet. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Lilian Ngweta , Subha Maity , Alex Gittens , Yuekai Sun , Mikhail Yurochkin

A recent spate of state-of-the-art semi- and un-supervised solutions disentangle and encode image "content" into a spatial tensor and image appearance or "style" into a vector, to achieve good performance in spatially equivariant tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xiao Liu , Spyridon Thermos , Gabriele Valvano , Agisilaos Chartsias , Alison O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

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

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

To highlight the challenges of achieving representation disentanglement for text domain in an unsupervised setting, in this paper we select a representative set of successfully applied models from the image domain. We evaluate these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Lan Zhang , Victor Prokhorov , Ehsan Shareghi

The deep learning revolution has strongly impacted low-level image processing tasks such as style/domain transfer, enhancement/restoration, and visual quality assessments. Despite often being treated separately, the aforementioned tasks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Cosmin Stejerean , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Hassene Tmar , Alan C. Bovik

Content and style (C-S) disentanglement intends to decompose the underlying explanatory factors of objects into two independent subspaces. From the unsupervised disentanglement perspective, we rethink content and style and propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Xuanchi Ren , Tao Yang , Yuwang Wang , Wenjun Zeng

Unsupervised disentanglement has been shown to be theoretically impossible without inductive biases on the models and the data. As an alternative approach, recent methods rely on limited supervision to disentangle the factors of variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Aviv Gabbay , Niv Cohen , Yedid Hoshen

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

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

Recent progress in contrastive learning has revolutionized unsupervised representation learning. Concretely, multiple views (augmentations) from the same image are encouraged to map to the similar embeddings, while views from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

Disentangled representation learning strives to extract the intrinsic factors within observed data. Factorizing these representations in an unsupervised manner is notably challenging and usually requires tailored loss functions or specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tao Yang , Cuiling Lan , Yan Lu , Nanning zheng