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Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been used for unsupervised disentanglement learning of complex density distributions. Numerous variants exist to encourage disentanglement in latent space while improving reconstruction.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Kenneth Ezukwoke , Anis Hoayek , Mireille Batton-Hubert , Xavier Boucher

Inference and prediction under partial knowledge of a physical system is challenging, particularly when multiple confounding sources influence the measured response. Explicitly accounting for these influences in physics-based models is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-14 Ioannis Christoforos Koune , Alice Cicirello

In recent years, extending variational autoencoder's framework to learn disentangled representations has received much attention. We address this problem by proposing a framework capable of disentangling class-related and class-independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Sina Hajimiri , Aryo Lotfi , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Disentangling the encodings of neural models is a fundamental aspect for improving interpretability, semantic control and downstream task performance in Natural Language Processing. Currently, most disentanglement methods are unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Danilo S. Carvalho , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Yingji Zhang , Andre Freitas

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

We would like to learn a representation of the data which decomposes an observation into factors of variation which we can independently control. Specifically, we want to use minimal supervision to learn a latent representation that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Diane Bouchacourt , Ryota Tomioka , Sebastian Nowozin

The discovery of new materials is often constrained by the need for large labelled datasets or expensive simulations. In this study, we explore the use of Disentangling Autoencoders (DAEs) to learn compact and interpretable representations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaehoon Cha , Tingyao Lu , Matthew Walker , Keith T. Butler

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

We aim to separate the generative factors of data into two latent vectors in a variational autoencoder. One vector captures class factors relevant to target classification tasks, while the other vector captures style factors relevant to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Bo-Kyeong Kim , Sungjin Park , Geonmin Kim , Soo-Young Lee

Deploying deep learning neural networks on edge devices, to accomplish task specific objectives in the real-world, requires a reduction in their memory footprint, power consumption, and latency. This can be realized via efficient model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Carl Shneider , Peyman Rostami , Anis Kacem , Nilotpal Sinha , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

Variational Autoencoders are one of the most commonly used generative models, particularly for image data. A prominent difficulty in training VAEs is data that is supported on a lower-dimensional manifold. Recent work by Dai and Wipf (2020)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Frederic Koehler , Viraj Mehta , Chenghui Zhou , Andrej Risteski

Finding a low dimensional parametric representation of measured BRDF remains challenging. Currently available solutions are either not interpretable, or rely on limited analytical solutions, or require expensive test subject based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Alexis Benamira , Sachin Shah , Sumanta Pattanaik

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In the field of machine learning, it is still a critical issue to identify and supervise the learned representation without manually intervening or intuition assistance to extract useful knowledge or serve for the downstream tasks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shiqi Liu , Jingxin Liu , Qian Zhao , Xiangyong Cao , Huibin Li , Deyu Meng , Hongying Meng , Sheng Liu

Deep generative models like variational autoencoders approximate the intrinsic geometry of high dimensional data manifolds by learning low-dimensional latent-space variables and an embedding function. The geometric properties of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ankita Shukla , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Saket Anand , Pavan Turaga

Visual data can be understood at different levels of granularity, where global features correspond to semantic-level information and local features correspond to texture patterns. In this work, we propose a framework, called SPLIT, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Rujikorn Charakorn , Yuttapong Thawornwattana , Sirawaj Itthipuripat , Nick Pawlowski , Poramate Manoonpong , Nat Dilokthanakul

Learning disentangled representations with variational autoencoders (VAEs) is often attributed to the regularisation component of the loss. In this work, we highlight the interaction between data and the reconstruction term of the loss as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Nathan Michlo , Richard Klein , Steven James

We introduce MGP-VAE (Multi-disentangled-features Gaussian Processes Variational AutoEncoder), a variational autoencoder which uses Gaussian processes (GP) to model the latent space for the unsupervised learning of disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sarthak Bhagat , Shagun Uppal , Zhuyun Yin , Nengli Lim

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

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are widely used deep generative models capable of learning unsupervised latent representations of data. Such representations are often difficult to interpret or control. We consider the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jack Klys , Jake Snell , Richard Zemel