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Recent approaches in music generation rely on disentangled representations, often labeled as structure and timbre or local and global, to enable controllable synthesis. Yet the underlying properties of these embeddings remain underexplored.…

Learning visual representations with interpretable features, i.e., disentangled representations, remains a challenging problem. Existing methods demonstrate some success but are hard to apply to large-scale vision datasets like ImageNet. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Lilian Ngweta , Subha Maity , Alex Gittens , Yuekai Sun , Mikhail Yurochkin

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet a detailed understanding of how specific perceptual attributes - such as color and shape - are internally represented remains limited. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Guillem Arias , Ariadna Solà , Martí Armengod , Maria Vanrell

Recently, generative graph models have shown promising results in learning graph representations through self-supervised methods. However, most existing generative graph representation learning (GRL) approaches rely on random masking across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xinyue Hu , Zhibin Duan , Xinyang Liu , Yuxin Li , Bo Chen , Chaojie Wang , Yilin He , Hongwei Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

Automatically disentangling an author's style from the content of their writing is a longstanding and possibly insurmountable problem in computational linguistics. At the same time, the availability of large text corpora furnished with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Andrew Wang , Cristina Aggazzotti , Rebecca Kotula , Rafael Rivera Soto , Marcus Bishop , Nicholas Andrews

Understanding how neural models represent human-interpretable concepts is challenging. Prior work has explored linear concept subspaces from diverse perspectives, such as probing and concept erasure. We introduce a unified framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Burin Naowarat , Hao Tang , Sharon Goldwater

Text-to-image generative models have enabled high-resolution image synthesis across different domains, but require users to specify the content they wish to generate. In this paper, we consider the inverse problem -- given a collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Nan Liu , Yilun Du , Shuang Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

Providing explanations along with predictions is crucial in some text processing tasks. Therefore, we propose a new self-interpretable model that performs output prediction and simultaneously provides an explanation in terms of the presence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Diane Bouchacourt , Ludovic Denoyer

Modern generative models demonstrate impressive capabilities, likely stemming from an ability to identify and manipulate abstract concepts underlying their training data. However, fundamental questions remain: what determines the concepts a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Core Francisco Park , Maya Okawa , Andrew Lee , Hidenori Tanaka , Ekdeep Singh Lubana

Recent advancements in language representation learning primarily emphasize language modeling for deriving meaningful representations, often neglecting style-specific considerations. This study addresses this gap by creating generic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Phil Ostheimer , Marius Kloft , Sophie Fellenz

A central question in cognitive science is whether conceptual representations converge onto a shared manifold to support generalization, or diverge into orthogonal subspaces to minimize task interference. While prior work has discovered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhimin Hu , Lanhao Niu , Sashank Varma

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 introduce a novel approach for concept blending in pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, aiming to generate images at the intersection of multiple text prompts. At each time step during diffusion denoising, our algorithm forecasts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Divya Kothandaraman , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

Concept-based explainability methods provide insight into deep learning systems by constructing explanations using human-understandable concepts. While the literature on human reasoning demonstrates that we exploit relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naveen Raman , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik

Developing inherently interpretable models for prediction has gained prominence in recent years. A subclass of these models, wherein the interpretable network relies on learning high-level concepts, are valued because of closeness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jayneel Parekh , Quentin Bouniot , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Alasdair Newson , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Mechanistic interpretability aims to understand how models store representations by breaking down neural networks into interpretable units. However, the occurrence of polysemantic neurons, or neurons that respond to multiple unrelated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Laura O'Mahony , Vincent Andrearczyk , Henning Muller , Mara Graziani

This paper proposes a novel neural model for the understudied task of generating text from keywords. The model takes as input a set of un-ordered keywords, and part-of-speech (POS) based template instructions. This makes it ideal for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Abhijit Mishra , Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury , Sagar Manohar , Dan Gutfreund , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Various controls over the generated data can be extracted from the latent space of a pre-trained GAN, as it implicitly encodes the semantics of the training data. The discovered controls allow to vary semantic attributes in the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

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

Disentanglement is a difficult property to enforce in neural representations. This might be due, in part, to a formalization of the disentanglement problem that focuses too heavily on separating relevant factors of variation of the data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Andrea Valenti , Davide Bacciu