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Recent successes in image generation, model-based reinforcement learning, and text-to-image generation have demonstrated the empirical advantages of discrete latent representations, although the reasons behind their benefits remain unclear.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 David Friede , Christian Reimers , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Mathias Niepert

Distributed learning and Edge AI necessitate efficient data processing, low-latency communication, decentralized model training, and stringent data privacy to facilitate real-time intelligence on edge devices while reducing dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lucas Heublein , Simon Kocher , Tobias Feigl , Alexander Rügamer , Christopher Mutschler , Felix Ott

Segmentation algorithms are prone to make topological errors on fine-scale structures, e.g., broken connections. We propose a novel method that learns to segment with correct topology. In particular, we design a continuous-valued loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Xiaoling Hu , Li Fuxin , Dimitris Samaras , Chao Chen

Learning disentangled representations of data is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence. Specifically, disentangled latent representations allow generative models to control and compose the disentangled factors in the synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yotam Nitzan , Amit Bermano , Yangyan Li , Daniel Cohen-Or

In this paper, we propose a framework for disentangling the appearance and geometry representations in the face recognition task. To provide supervision for this aim, we generate geometrically identical faces by incorporating spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ali Dabouei , Fariborz Taherkhani , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Disentangled Representation Learning aims to improve the explainability of deep learning methods by training a data encoder that identifies semantically meaningful latent variables in the data generation process. Nevertheless, there is no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ruoyu Wang , Lina Yao

We develop a generalisation of disentanglement in VAEs---decomposition of the latent representation---characterising it as the fulfilment of two factors: a) the latent encodings of the data having an appropriate level of overlap, and b) the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Emile Mathieu , Tom Rainforth , N. Siddharth , Yee Whye Teh

Intelligent behaviour in the real-world requires the ability to acquire new knowledge from an ongoing sequence of experiences while preserving and reusing past knowledge. We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised representation learning…

Fair representation learning aims to encode invariant representation with respect to the protected attribute, such as gender or age. In this paper, we design Fairness-aware Disentangling Variational AutoEncoder (FD-VAE) for fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Sungho Park , Dohyung Kim , Sunhee Hwang , Hyeran Byun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have recently achieved impressive improvements in face recognition. But a persistent challenge remains to develop methods capable of handling large pose variations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Xi Peng , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Dimitris Metaxas , Manmohan Chandraker

In this study, Disentanglement in Difference(DiD) is proposed to address the inherent inconsistency between the statistical independence of latent variables and the goal of semantic disentanglement in disentanglement representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xingshen Zhang , Lin Wang , Shuangrong Liu , Xintao Lu , Chaoran Pang , Bo Yang

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

We propose a novel approach to disentangle the generative factors of variation underlying a given set of observations. Our method builds upon the idea that the (unknown) low-dimensional manifold underlying the data space can be explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Marco Fumero , Luca Cosmo , Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà

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

Disentanglement is a highly desirable property of representation due to its similarity with human's understanding and reasoning. This improves interpretability, enables the performance of down-stream tasks, and enables controllable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Jiantao Wu , Lin Wang

Multi-modal MRIs are widely used in neuroimaging applications since different MR sequences provide complementary information about brain structures. Recent works have suggested that multi-modal deep learning analysis can benefit from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jiahong Ouyang , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl , Qingyu Zhao , Greg Zaharchuk

Self-supervised representation learning often uses data augmentations to induce some invariance to "style" attributes of the data. However, with downstream tasks generally unknown at training time, it is difficult to deduce a priori which…

Disentangled learning representations have promising utility in many applications, but they currently suffer from serious reliability issues. We present Gaussian Channel Autoencoder (GCAE), a method which achieves reliable disentanglement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Eric Yeats , Frank Liu , Hai Li

Learning disentangled representations from visual data, where different high-level generative factors are independently encoded, is of importance for many computer vision tasks. Solving this problem, however, typically requires to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Adria Ruiz , Oriol Martinez , Xavier Binefa , Jakob Verbeek

Deep representation learning offers a powerful paradigm for mapping input data onto an organized embedding space and is useful for many music information retrieval tasks. Two central methods for representation learning include deep metric…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jongpil Lee , Nicholas J. Bryan , Justin Salamon , Zeyu Jin , Juhan Nam