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Learning disentangled representations is regarded as a fundamental task for improving the generalization, robustness, and interpretability of generative models. However, measuring disentanglement has been challenging and inconsistent, often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-19 Sharon Zhou , Eric Zelikman , Fred Lu , Andrew Y. Ng , Gunnar Carlsson , Stefano Ermon

Latent traversal is a popular approach to visualize the disentangled latent representations. Given a bunch of variations in a single unit of the latent representation, it is expected that there is a change in a single factor of variation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xinqi Zhu , Chang Xu , Dacheng Tao

Node representations, or embeddings, are low-dimensional vectors that capture node properties, typically learned through unsupervised structural similarity objectives or supervised tasks. While recent efforts have focused on explaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Simone Piaggesi , André Panisson , Megha Khosla

Dimensionality reduction is a fundamental task that aims to simplify complex data by reducing its feature dimensionality while preserving essential patterns, with core applications in data analysis and visualisation. To preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Thomas Dagès , Simon Weber , Ya-Wei Eileen Lin , Ronen Talmon , Daniel Cremers , Michael Lindenbaum , Alfred M. Bruckstein , Ron Kimmel

Person image synthesis with controllable body poses and appearances is an essential task owing to the practical needs in the context of virtual try-on, image editing and video production. However, existing methods face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Enbo Huang , Yuan Zhang , Faliang Huang , Guangyu Zhang , Yang Liu

We introduce the concept of entanglement width as measure of the spatial distribution of entanglement in multiparticle systems. We develop criteria to detect the width of entanglement using global observables such as energy and magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Sabine Wölk , Otfried Gühne

The expansion of the low-altitude economy has underscored the significance of Low-Altitude Network Coverage (LANC) prediction for designing aerial corridors. While accurate LANC forecasting hinges on the antenna beam patterns of Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaojie Li , Zhijie Cai , Nan Qi , Chao Dong , Guangxu Zhu , Haixia Ma , Qihui Wu , Shi Jin

Disentanglement learning is crucial for obtaining disentangled representations and controllable generation. Current disentanglement methods face several inherent limitations: difficulty with high-resolution images, primarily focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Weili Nie , Tero Karras , Animesh Garg , Shoubhik Debnath , Anjul Patney , Ankit B. Patel , Anima Anandkumar

Common measures of neural representational (dis)similarity are designed to be insensitive to rotations and reflections of the neural activation space. Motivated by the premise that the tuning of individual units may be important, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Meenakshi Khosla , Alex H. Williams

Learning meaningful representations that disentangle the underlying structure of the data generating process is considered to be of key importance in machine learning. While disentangled representations were found to be useful for diverse…

We propose a novel framework to analyze symmetry breaking in dynamical systems through the lens of entropy and information transfer. Information transfer quantifies the directional exchange of entropy between observables, allowing us to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Subhrajit Sinha , Parvathi Kooloth

One of the fundamental representation learning tasks is unsupervised sequential disentanglement, where latent codes of inputs are decomposed to a single static factor and a sequence of dynamic factors. To extract this latent information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Idan Arbiv , Gal Fadlon , Omri Azencot

Deep latent-variable models learn representations of high-dimensional data in an unsupervised manner. A number of recent efforts have focused on learning representations that disentangle statistically independent axes of variation by…

As 3D human pose estimation can now be achieved with very high accuracy in the supervised learning scenario, tackling the case where 3D pose annotations are not available has received increasing attention. In particular, several methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Krishna Kanth Nakka , Mathieu Salzmann

Representations in the form of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been popularized in a variety of visual learning applications due to their demonstrated ability to capture rich second-order statistics of visual data. There…

This work studies the problem of simultaneously separating and reconstructing signals from compressively sensed linear mixtures. We assume that all source signals share a common sparse representation basis. The approach combines classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Martin Kleinsteuber , Hao Shen

We study creating and analyzing symmetry and broken symmetry in digital art. Our focus is not so much on computer-generating artistic images, but rather on analyzing concepts and templates for incorporating symmetry and symmetry breaking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hendrik Richter

Multivariate measurements taken at different spatial locations occur frequently in practice. Proper analysis of such data needs to consider not only dependencies on-sight but also dependencies in and in-between variables as a function of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-12 Christoph Muehlmann , Peter Filzmoser , Klaus Nordhausen

We develop a new unsupervised symmetry learning method that starts with raw data and provides the minimal generator of an underlying Lie group of symmetries, together with a symmetry-equivariant representation of the data, which turns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Efe , Arkadas Ozakin

We consider the problem of evaluating representations of data for use in solving a downstream task. We propose to measure the quality of a representation by the complexity of learning a predictor on top of the representation that achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 William F. Whitney , Min Jae Song , David Brandfonbrener , Jaan Altosaar , Kyunghyun Cho