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Negative-free contrastive learning methods have attracted a lot of attention with simplicity and impressive performances for large-scale pretraining. However, its disentanglement property remains unexplored. In this paper, we examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jinkun Cao , Ruiqian Nai , Qing Yang , Jialei Huang , Yang Gao

Deep-embedding methods aim to discover representations of a domain that make explicit the domain's class structure and thereby support few-shot learning. Disentangling methods aim to make explicit compositional or factorial structure. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Karl Ridgeway , Michael C. Mozer

Recent work on interpretability has focused on concept-based explanations, where deep learning models are explained in terms of high-level units of information, referred to as concepts. Concept learning models, however, have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Pietro Barbiero , Zohreh Shams , Dmitry Kazhdan , Umang Bhatt , Adrian Weller , Mateja Jamnik

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.…

This paper addresses two crucial problems of learning disentangled image representations, namely controlling the degree of disentanglement during image editing, and balancing the disentanglement strength and the reconstruction quality. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zengjie Song , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Jiangshe Zhang

Disentangling the explanatory factors in complex data is a promising approach for generalizable and data-efficient representation learning. While a variety of quantitative metrics for learning and evaluating disentangled representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yivan Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Neural Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) based models are powerful and interpretable approaches to neuro-symbolic learning and have shown promising results in classification and reinforcement learning settings without prior knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Kexin Gu Baugh , Vincent Perreault , Matthew Baugh , Luke Dickens , Katsumi Inoue , Alessandra Russo

Disentanglement learning is crucial for obtaining disentangled representations and controllable generation. Current disentanglement methods face several inherent limitations: difficulty with high-resolution images, primarily focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Weili Nie , Tero Karras , Animesh Garg , Shoubhik Debnath , Anjul Patney , Ankit B. Patel , Anima Anandkumar

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

Learning disentangled representations is regarded as a fundamental task for improving the generalization, robustness, and interpretability of generative models. However, measuring disentanglement has been challenging and inconsistent, often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-19 Sharon Zhou , Eric Zelikman , Fred Lu , Andrew Y. Ng , Gunnar Carlsson , Stefano Ermon

To highlight the challenges of achieving representation disentanglement for text domain in an unsupervised setting, in this paper we select a representative set of successfully applied models from the image domain. We evaluate these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Lan Zhang , Victor Prokhorov , Ehsan Shareghi

Disentangled representations, where the higher level data generative factors are reflected in disjoint latent dimensions, offer several benefits such as ease of deriving invariant representations, transferability to other tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Abhishek Kumar , Prasanna Sattigeri , Avinash Balakrishnan

The challenge of learning disentangled representation has recently attracted much attention and boils down to a competition using a new real world disentanglement dataset (Gondal et al., 2019). Various methods based on variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jie Qiao , Zijian Li , Boyan Xu , Ruichu Cai , Kun Zhang

The key idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is that real-world data is generated by a few explanatory factors of variation which can be recovered by unsupervised learning algorithms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Francesco Locatello , Stefan Bauer , Mario Lucic , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

Estimating individual-level treatment effect from observational data is a fundamental problem in causal inference and has attracted increasing attention in the fields of education, healthcare, and public policy.In this work, we concentrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Hui Meng , Keping Yang , Xuyu Peng , Bo Zheng

In this paper, we investigate the problem of learning disentangled representations. Given a pair of images sharing some attributes, we aim to create a low-dimensional representation which is split into two parts: a shared representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-10 Eduardo Hugo Sanchez , Mathieu Serrurier , Mathias Ortner

How can intelligent agents solve a diverse set of tasks in a data-efficient manner? The disentangled representation learning approach posits that such an agent would benefit from separating out (disentangling) the underlying structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Irina Higgins , David Amos , David Pfau , Sebastien Racaniere , Loic Matthey , Danilo Rezende , Alexander Lerchner

The recently introduced weakly disentangled representations proposed to relax some constraints of the previous definitions of disentanglement, in exchange for more flexibility. However, at the moment, weak disentanglement can only be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Andrea Valenti , Davide Bacciu

Constructing disentangled representations is known to be a difficult task, especially in the unsupervised scenario. The dominating paradigm of unsupervised disentanglement is currently to train a generative model that separates different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Valentin Khrulkov , Leyla Mirvakhabova , Ivan Oseledets , Artem Babenko

Developing meaningful and efficient representations that separate the fundamental structure of the data generation mechanism is crucial in representation learning. However, Disentangled Representation Learning has not fully shown its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jacopo Dapueto , Nicoletta Noceti , Francesca Odone