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Disentangled representation learning has recently attracted a significant amount of attention, particularly in the field of image representation learning. However, learning the disentangled representations behind a graph remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Xiaojie Guo , Liang Zhao , Zhao Qin , Lingfei Wu , Amarda Shehu , Yanfang Ye

While a wide range of interpretable generative procedures for graphs exist, matching observed graph topologies with such procedures and choices for its parameters remains an open problem. Devising generative models that closely reproduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Niklas Stoehr , Emine Yilmaz , Marc Brockschmidt , Jan Stuehmer

Deep generative models have been wildly successful at learning coherent latent representations for continuous data such as video and audio. However, generative modeling of discrete data such as arithmetic expressions and molecular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-07 Matt J. Kusner , Brooks Paige , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Humans have a remarkable ability to disentangle complex sensory inputs (e.g., image, text) into simple factors of variation (e.g., shape, color) without much supervision. This ability has inspired many works that attempt to solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kartik Ahuja , Divyat Mahajan , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Ioannis Mitliagkas

The primary characteristic of robust speaker representations is that they are invariant to factors of variability not related to speaker identity. Disentanglement of speaker representations is one of the techniques used to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Raghuveer Peri , Haoqi Li , Krishna Somandepalli , Arindam Jati , Shrikanth Narayanan

Generative modeling of 3D shapes has become an important problem due to its relevance to many applications across Computer Vision, Graphics, and VR. In this paper we build upon recently introduced 3D mesh-convolutional Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Jake Levinson , Avneesh Sud , Ameesh Makadia

From the intuitive notion of disentanglement, the image variations corresponding to different factors should be distinct from each other, and the disentangled representation should reflect those variations with separate dimensions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xuanchi Ren , Tao Yang , Yuwang Wang , Wenjun Zeng

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

Disentangled representation learning offers useful properties such as dimension reduction and interpretability, which are essential to modern deep learning approaches. Although deep learning techniques have been widely applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Sichen Zhao , Wei Shao , Jeffrey Chan , Flora D. Salim

The aim of latent variable disentanglement is to infer the multiple informative latent representations that lie behind a data generation process and is a key factor in controllable data generation. In this paper, we propose a deep neural…

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This paper explores self-supervised disentangled representation learning within sequential data, focusing on separating time-independent and time-varying factors in videos. We propose a new model that breaks the usual independence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Mathieu Cyrille Simon , Pascal Frossard , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Generative models have been widely studied in computer vision. Recently, diffusion models have drawn substantial attention due to the high quality of their generated images. A key desired property of image generative models is the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Ajinkya Kale , Trung Bui , Tong Yu , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Deep latent variable models (DLVMs) are designed to learn meaningful representations in an unsupervised manner, such that the hidden explanatory factors are interpretable by independent latent variables (aka disentanglement). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Surojit Saha , Sarang Joshi , Ross Whitaker

As we enter the era of machine learning characterized by an overabundance of data, discovery, organization, and interpretation of the data in an unsupervised manner becomes a critical need. One promising approach to this endeavour is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are essential tools in end-to-end representation learning. However, the sequential text generation common pitfall with VAEs is that the model tends to ignore latent variables with a strong auto-regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yang Zhao , Ping Yu , Suchismit Mahapatra , Qinliang Su , Changyou Chen

Disentangled representations enable models to separate factors of variation that are shared across experimental conditions from those that are condition-specific. This separation is essential in domains such as biomedical data analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yuli Slavutsky , Ozgur Beker , David Blei , Bianca Dumitrascu

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…

In this study, Disentanglement in Difference(DiD) is proposed to address the inherent inconsistency between the statistical independence of latent variables and the goal of semantic disentanglement in disentanglement representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xingshen Zhang , Lin Wang , Shuangrong Liu , Xintao Lu , Chaoran Pang , Bo Yang

Representation learning assumes that real-world data is generated by a few semantically meaningful generative factors (i.e., sources of variation) and aims to discover them in the latent space. These factors are expected to be causally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Jiaxin Yuan , Bang An , Yuancheng Xu , Yifan Yang , Furong Huang

This study addresses the challenge of statistically extracting generative factors from complex, high-dimensional datasets in unsupervised or semi-supervised settings. We investigate encoder-decoder-based generative models for nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-02 Arkaprabha Ganguli , Nesar Ramachandra , Julie Bessac , Emil Constantinescu