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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,…

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In this paper, we consider decentralized optimization problems where agents have individual cost functions to minimize subject to subspace constraints that require the minimizers across the network to lie in low-dimensional subspaces. This…

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While representation learning aims to derive interpretable features for describing visual data, representation disentanglement further results in such features so that particular image attributes can be identified and manipulated. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Yen-Cheng Liu , Yu-Ying Yeh , Tzu-Chien Fu , Sheng-De Wang , Wei-Chen Chiu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Learning interpretable and human-controllable representations that uncover factors of variation in data remains an ongoing key challenge in representation learning. We investigate learning group-disentangled representations for groups of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Linh Tran , Amir Hosein Khasahmadi , Aditya Sanghi , Saeid Asgari

We contribute an unsupervised method that effectively learns disentangled content and style representations from sequences of observations. Unlike most disentanglement algorithms that rely on domain-specific labels or knowledge, our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuxuan Wu , Ziyu Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Gus Xia

Representational learning forms the backbone of most deep learning applications, and the value of a learned representation is intimately tied to its information content regarding different factors of variation. Finding good representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Kieran A. Murphy , Varun Jampani , Srikumar Ramalingam , Ameesh Makadia

Recently, researches related to unsupervised disentanglement learning with deep generative models have gained substantial popularity. However, without introducing supervision, there is no guarantee that the factors of interest can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Junxiang Chen , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Learning disentangled representations of natural language is essential for many NLP tasks, e.g., conditional text generation, style transfer, personalized dialogue systems, etc. Similar problems have been studied extensively for other forms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pengyu Cheng , Martin Renqiang Min , Dinghan Shen , Christopher Malon , Yizhe Zhang , Yitong Li , Lawrence Carin

Learning disentangled representations without supervision or inductive biases, often leads to non-interpretable or undesirable representations. On the other hand, strict supervision requires detailed knowledge of the true generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Vasilis Margonis , Athanasios Davvetas , Iraklis A. Klampanos

The dynamics of many-body systems can often be captured in terms of only a few relevant variables. Mathematical and numerical approaches exist to identify these variables by exploiting a separation of time scales between slow relevant and…

Encoding only the task-related information from the raw data, \ie, disentangled representation learning, can greatly contribute to the robustness and generalizability of models. Although significant advances have been made by regularizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhuohang Dang , Minnan Luo , Chengyou Jia , Guang Dai , Jihong Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Jingdong Wang

Distant supervision for relation extraction enables one to effectively acquire structured relations out of very large text corpora with less human efforts. Nevertheless, most of the prior-art models for such tasks assume that the given text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Hongyu Guo , Jie Xu

Distribution shifts between sites can seriously degrade model performance since models are prone to exploiting unstable correlations. Thus, many methods try to find features that are stable across sites and discard unstable features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Minh Nguyen , Alan Q. Wang , Heejong Kim , Mert R. Sabuncu

Disentangling anatomical and contrast information from medical images has gained attention recently, demonstrating benefits for various image analysis tasks. Current methods learn disentangled representations using either paired multi-modal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Lianrui Zuo , Yihao Liu , Yuan Xue , Shuo Han , Murat Bilgel , Susan M. Resnick , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

Generalising deep models to new data from new centres (termed here domains) remains a challenge. This is largely attributed to shifts in data statistics (domain shifts) between source and unseen domains. Recently, gradient-based…

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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

We view disentanglement learning as discovering an underlying structure that equivariantly reflects the factorized variations shown in data. Traditionally, such a structure is fixed to be a vector space with data variations represented by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xinqi Zhu , Chang Xu , Dacheng Tao

We present a self-supervised method to disentangle factors of variation in high-dimensional data that does not rely on prior knowledge of the underlying variation profile (e.g., no assumptions on the number or distribution of the individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Eric Yeats , Frank Liu , David Womble , Hai Li

An important component for generalization in machine learning is to uncover underlying latent factors of variation as well as the mechanism through which each factor acts in the world. In this paper, we test whether 17 unsupervised, weakly…

Symmetry-based disentangled representation learning leverages the group structure of environment transformations to uncover the latent factors of variation. Prior approaches to symmetry-based disentanglement have required strong prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Barthélémy Dang-Nhu , Louis Annabi , Sylvain Argentieri