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Humans excel at abstracting data and constructing \emph{reusable} concepts, a capability lacking in current continual learning systems. The field of object-centric learning addresses this by developing abstract representations, or slots,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Vihang Patil , Andreas Radler , Daniel Klotz , Sepp Hochreiter

The extraction of modular object-centric representations for downstream tasks is an emerging area of research. Learning grounded representations of objects that are guaranteed to be stable and invariant promises robust performance across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Avinash Kori , Francesco Locatello , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Francesca Toni , Ben Glocker

Clustering ensemble has emerged as an important research topic in the field of machine learning. Although numerous methods have been proposed to improve clustering quality, most existing approaches overlook the need for interpretability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hang Lv , Lianyu Hu , Mudi Jiang , Xinying Liu , Zengyou He

The ability to carve the world into useful abstractions in order to reason about time and space is a crucial component of intelligence. In order to successfully perceive and act effectively using senses we must parse and compress large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Ryan Faulkner , Daniel Zoran

We present SlotAdapt, an object-centric learning method that combines slot attention with pretrained diffusion models by introducing adapters for slot-based conditioning. Our method preserves the generative power of pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Adil Kaan Akan , Yucel Yemez

Unsupervised extraction of objects from low-level visual data is an important goal for further progress in machine learning. Existing approaches for representing objects without labels use structured generative models with static images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Evan Racah , Sarath Chandar

Learning structured representations of visual scenes is currently a major bottleneck to bridging perception with reasoning. While there has been exciting progress with slot-based models, which learn to segment scenes into sets of objects,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 James C. R. Whittington , Rishabh Kabra , Loic Matthey , Christopher P. Burgess , Alexander Lerchner

Causal representation learning has showed a variety of settings in which we can disentangle latent variables with identifiability guarantees (up to some reasonable equivalence class). Common to all of these approaches is the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amin Mansouri , Jason Hartford , Yan Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

Modular object-centric representations are essential for *human-like reasoning* but are challenging to obtain under spatial ambiguities, *e.g. due to occlusions and view ambiguities*. However, addressing challenges presents both theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Ben Glocker

The increasing digitalization in industry and society leads to a growing abundance of data available to be processed and exploited. However, the high volume of data requires considerable computational resources for applying machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Joel Luís Carbonera

Object-centric representation learning aims to decompose visual scenes into fixed-size vectors called "slots" or "object files", where each slot captures a distinct object. Current state-of-the-art object-centric models have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Rabiul Awal , Maximilian Seitzer , Efstratios Gavves , Aishwarya Agrawal

Unsupervised disentangled representation learning is a long-standing problem in computer vision. This work proposes a novel framework for performing image clustering from deep embeddings by combining instance-level contrastive learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ramakrishnan Sundareswaran , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Ali Jannesari

Object-centric learning aims to represent visual data with a set of object entities (a.k.a. slots), providing structured representations that enable systematic generalization. Leveraging advanced architectures like Transformers, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Ziyi Wu , Jingyu Hu , Wuyue Lu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

Multi-view clustering has become a significant area of research, with numerous methods proposed over the past decades to enhance clustering accuracy. However, in many real-world applications, it is crucial to demonstrate a clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mudi Jiang , Lianyu Hu , Zengyou He , Zhikui Chen

World modelling, i.e. building a representation of the rules that govern the world so as to predict its evolution, is an essential ability for any agent interacting with the physical world. Recent applications of the Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Francesco Petri , Luigi Asprino , Aldo Gangemi

Unsupervised object-centric learning aims to decompose scenes into interpretable object entities, termed slots. Slot-based auto-encoders stand out as a prominent method for this task. Within them, crucial aspects include guiding the encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Nikos Komodakis

How to find a natural grouping of a large real data set? Clustering requires a balance between abstraction and representation. To identify clusters, we need to abstract from superfluous details of individual objects. But we also need a rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Claudia Plant , Lena G. M. Bauer , Christian Böhm

The binding problem in artificial neural networks is actively explored with the goal of achieving human-level recognition skills through the comprehension of the world in terms of symbol-like entities. Especially in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jinwoo Kim , Janghyuk Choi , Jaehyun Kang , Changyeon Lee , Ho-Jin Choi , Seon Joo Kim

In this paper, we tackle the problem of learning visual representations from unlabeled scene-centric data. Existing works have demonstrated the potential of utilizing the underlying complex structure within scene-centric data; still, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao , Anlin Zheng , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

We introduce the first metric for evaluating disentanglement at individual hierarchy levels of a structured latent representation. Applied to object-centric generative models, this offers a systematic, unified approach to evaluating (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Raphaël Dang-Nhu