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We propose FineGAN, a novel unsupervised GAN framework, which disentangles the background, object shape, and object appearance to hierarchically generate images of fine-grained object categories. To disentangle the factors without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Krishna Kumar Singh , Utkarsh Ojha , Yong Jae Lee

There has been a growing interest in statistical inference from data satisfying the so-called manifold hypothesis, assuming data points in the high-dimensional ambient space to lie in close vicinity of a submanifold of much lower dimension.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-04 Rong Tang , Yun Yang

We present a novel method for learning reduced-order models of dynamical systems using nonlinear manifolds. First, we learn the manifold by identifying nonlinear structure in the data through a general representation learning problem. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Rudy Geelen , Laura Balzano , Stephen Wright , Karen Willcox

Disentangling factors of variation has become a very challenging problem on representation learning. Existing algorithms suffer from many limitations, such as unpredictable disentangling factors, poor quality of generated images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Taihong Xiao , Jiapeng Hong , Jinwen Ma

We propose a nonlinear manifold learning technique based on deep convolutional autoencoders that is appropriate for model order reduction of physical systems in complex geometries. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 John Tencer , Kevin Potter

We tackle the problem disentangling the latent space of an autoencoder in order to separate labelled attribute information from other characteristic information. This then allows us to change selected attributes while preserving other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiao Li , Chenghua Lin , Ruizhe Li , Chaozheng Wang , Frank Guerin

Euclidean representations distort data with intrinsic non-Euclidean structure. While Riemannian representation learning offers a solution by embedding data onto matching manifolds, it typically relies on an encoder to estimate densities on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Andreas Bjerregaard , Søren Hauberg , Anders Krogh

We develop a symmetry-aware toolkit for finite mixtures whose components are only identifiable up to a finite \emph{folding} group action. The correct estimand is the multiset of parameter orbits in the quotient space, not an ordered list…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-11 Koustav Mallik

Disentangling complex data to its latent factors of variation is a fundamental task in representation learning. Existing work on sequential disentanglement mostly provides two factor representations, i.e., it separates the data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Omri Azencot

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful unsupervised method to model the statistical patterns of real-world data sets, such as natural images. These networks are trained to map random inputs in their latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Binxu Wang , Carlos R. Ponce

Intelligent agents should be able to learn useful representations by observing changes in their environment. We model such observations as pairs of non-i.i.d. images sharing at least one of the underlying factors of variation. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Francesco Locatello , Ben Poole , Gunnar Rätsch , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem , Michael Tschannen

Learning semantically meaningful image transformations (i.e. rotation, thickness, blur) directly from examples can be a challenging task. Recently, the Manifold Autoencoder (MAE) proposed using a set of Lie group operators to learn image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Brighton Ancelin , Yenho Chen , Peimeng Guan , Chiraag Kaushik , Belen Martin-Urcelay , Alex Saad-Falcon , Nakul Singh

In this work we introduce a manifold learning-based method for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in systems describing complex spatiotemporal processes. Our first objective is to identify the embedding of a set of high-dimensional data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-05-18 Katiana Kontolati , Dimitrios Loukrezis , Ketson R. M. dos Santos , Dimitrios G. Giovanis , Michael D. Shields

Manifold-learning techniques are routinely used in mining complex spatiotemporal data to extract useful, parsimonious data representations/parametrizations; these are, in turn, useful in nonlinear model identification tasks. We focus here…

Disentangled representations, where the higher level data generative factors are reflected in disjoint latent dimensions, offer several benefits such as ease of deriving invariant representations, transferability to other tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Abhishek Kumar , Prasanna Sattigeri , Avinash Balakrishnan

Scientific datasets often arise from multiple independent mechanisms such as spatial, categorical or structural effects, whose combined influence obscures their individual contributions. We introduce DIVIDE, a framework that disentangles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vivek Chawla , Boris Slautin , Utkarsh Pratiush , Dayakar Penumadu , Sergei Kalinin

We present a deformable generator model to disentangle the appearance and geometric information for both image and video data in a purely unsupervised manner. The appearance generator network models the information related to appearance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Xianglei Xing , Ruiqi Gao , Tian Han , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Calculus and geometry are ubiquitous in the theoretical modelling of scientific phenomena, but have historically been very challenging to apply directly to real data as statistics. Diffusion geometry is a new theory that reformulates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Iolo Jones , David Lanners

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…

We develop a neural network architecture which, trained in an unsupervised manner as a denoising diffusion model, simultaneously learns to both generate and segment images. Learning is driven entirely by the denoising diffusion objective,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xin Yuan , Michael Maire