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Disentanglement is a useful property in representation learning which increases the interpretability of generative models such as Variational autoencoders (VAE), Generative Adversarial Models, and their many variants. Typically in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Arun Pandey , Michael Fanuel , Joachim Schreurs , Johan A. K. Suykens

We make two theoretical contributions to disentanglement learning by (a) defining precise semantics of disentangled representations, and (b) establishing robust metrics for evaluation. First, we characterize the concept "disentangled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Kien Do , Truyen Tran

Face images are subject to many different factors of variation, especially in unconstrained in-the-wild scenarios. For most tasks involving such images, e.g. expression recognition from video streams, having enough labeled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Marah Halawa , Manuel Wöllhaf , Eduardo Vellasques , Urko Sánchez Sanz , Olaf Hellwich

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

Pursuing realistic results according to human visual perception is the central concern in the image transformation tasks. Perceptual learning approaches like perceptual loss are empirically powerful for such tasks but they usually rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kangfu Mei , Yao Lu , Qiaosi Yi , Haoyu Wu , Juncheng Li , Rui Huang

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

The (variational) graph auto-encoder is widely used to learn representations for graph-structured data. However, the formation of real-world graphs is a complicated and heterogeneous process influenced by latent factors. Existing encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Di Fan , Chuanhou Gao

Recent disentangled representation learning (DRL) methods heavily rely on factor specific strategies-either learning objectives for attributes or model architectures for objects-to embed inductive biases. Such divergent approaches result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Whie Jung , Dong Hoon Lee , Seunghoon Hong

A disentangled representation encodes information about the salient factors of variation in the data independently. Although it is often argued that this representational format is useful in learning to solve many real-world down-stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Francesco Locatello , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Olivier Bachem

Self-supervised disentangled representation learning is a critical task in sequence modeling. The learnt representations contribute to better model interpretability as well as the data generation, and improve the sample efficiency for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Junwen Bai , Weiran Wang , Carla Gomes

Sensory data are often comprised of independent content and transformation factors. For example, face images may have shapes as content and poses as transformation. To infer separately these factors from given data, various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Haruo Hosoya

Learning fair representation is crucial for achieving fairness or debiasing sensitive information. Most existing works rely on adversarial representation learning to inject some invariance into representation. However, adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Changdae Oh , Heeji Won , Junhyuk So , Taero Kim , Yewon Kim , Hosik Choi , Kyungwoo Song

Learning the disentangled representation of interpretable generative factors of data is one of the foundations to allow artificial intelligence to think like people. In this paper, we propose the analogical training strategy for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Zejian Li , Yongchuan Tang , Yongxing He

Learning disentangled representations is considered a cornerstone problem in representation learning. Recently, Locatello et al. (2019) demonstrated that unsupervised disentanglement learning without inductive biases is theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Francesco Locatello , Michael Tschannen , Stefan Bauer , Gunnar Rätsch , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

In representation learning, a disentangled representation is highly desirable as it encodes generative factors of data in a separable and compact pattern. Researchers have advocated leveraging disentangled representations to complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Ruiqian Nai , Zixin Wen , Ji Li , Yuanzhi Li , Yang Gao

Representation learning is an approach that allows to discover and extract the factors of variation from the data. Intuitively, a representation is said to be disentangled if it separates the different factors of variation in a way that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Antonio Almudévar , Alfonso Ortega

Recently there has been a significant interest in learning disentangled representations, as they promise increased interpretability, generalization to unseen scenarios and faster learning on downstream tasks. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Francesco Locatello , Gabriele Abbati , Tom Rainforth , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

We propose an approach to learn image representations that consist of disentangled factors of variation without exploiting any manual labeling or data domain knowledge. A factor of variation corresponds to an image attribute that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Qiyang Hu , Attila Szabó , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

Neural operators (NOs) excel at learning mappings between function spaces, serving as efficient forward solution approximators for PDE-governed systems. However, as black-box solvers, they offer limited insight into the underlying physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ning Liu , Lu Zhang , Tian Gao , Yue Yu

Image generating neural networks are mostly viewed as black boxes, where any change in the input can have a number of globally effective changes on the output. In this work, we propose a method for learning disentangled representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Maren Awiszus , Hanno Ackermann , Bodo Rosenhahn