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Node representations, or embeddings, are low-dimensional vectors that capture node properties, typically learned through unsupervised structural similarity objectives or supervised tasks. While recent efforts have focused on explaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Simone Piaggesi , André Panisson , Megha Khosla

Representation learning is the foundation for the recent success of neural network models. However, the distributed representations generated by neural networks are far from ideal. Due to their highly entangled nature, they are di cult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-09 William Whitney

Disentangled visual representations have largely been studied with generative models such as Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). While prior work has focused on generative methods for disentangled representation learning, these approaches do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Andrea Burns , Aaron Sarna , Dilip Krishnan , Aaron Maschinot

Several factors contribute to the appearance of an object in a visual scene, including pose, illumination, and deformation, among others. Each factor accounts for a source of variability in the data, while the multiplicative interactions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Mengjiao Wang , Zhixin Shu , Shiyang Cheng , Yannis Panagakis , Dimitris Samaras , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Disentangled encoding is an important step towards a better representation learning. However, despite the numerous efforts, there still is no clear winner that captures the independent features of the data in an unsupervised fashion. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Amir H. Abdi , Purang Abolmaesumi , Sidney Fels

Variational Autoencoders and their many variants have displayed impressive ability to perform dimensionality reduction, often achieving state-of-the-art performance. Many current methods however, struggle to learn good representations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Navindu Leelarathna , Andrei Margeloiu , Mateja Jamnik , Nikola Simidjievski

Disentangled representation learning has recently attracted a significant amount of attention, particularly in the field of image representation learning. However, learning the disentangled representations behind a graph remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Xiaojie Guo , Liang Zhao , Zhao Qin , Lingfei Wu , Amarda Shehu , Yanfang Ye

Disentangling factors of variation has become a very challenging problem on representation learning. Existing algorithms suffer from many limitations, such as unpredictable disentangling factors, poor quality of generated images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Taihong Xiao , Jiapeng Hong , Jinwen Ma

In this research, we propose a deep learning based approach for speeding up the topology optimization methods. The problem we seek to solve is the layout problem. The main novelty of this work is to state the problem as an image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Ivan Sosnovik , Ivan Oseledets

One of the pursued objectives of deep learning is to provide tools that learn abstract representations of reality from the observation of multiple contextual situations. More precisely, one wishes to extract disentangled representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Nathan Noiry , Guillaume Staerman , Pablo Piantanida

The ability of learning disentangled representations represents a major step for interpretable NLP systems as it allows latent linguistic features to be controlled. Most approaches to disentanglement rely on continuous variables, both for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Giangiacomo Mercatali , André Freitas

Disentangling complex data to its latent factors of variation is a fundamental task in representation learning. Existing work on sequential disentanglement mostly provides two factor representations, i.e., it separates the data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Omri Azencot

In disentangled representation learning, a model is asked to tease apart a dataset's underlying sources of variation and represent them independently of one another. Since the model is provided with no ground truth information about these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kyle Hsu , Will Dorrell , James C. R. Whittington , Jiajun Wu , Chelsea Finn

Despite extensive research conducted in the field of image denoising, many algorithms still heavily depend on supervised learning and their effectiveness primarily relies on the quality and diversity of training data. It is widely assumed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Alexandra Malyugina , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

The popular frameworks for self-supervised learning of speech representations have largely focused on frame-level masked prediction of speech regions. While this has shown promising downstream task performance for speech recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Varun Krishna , Sriram Ganapathy

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Representation learning is an approach that allows to discover and extract the factors of variation from the data. Intuitively, a representation is said to be disentangled if it separates the different factors of variation in a way that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Antonio Almudévar , Alfonso Ortega

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu

Learning discriminative powerful representations is a crucial step for machine learning systems. Introducing invariance against arbitrary nuisance or sensitive attributes while performing well on specific tasks is an important problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Mhd Hasan Sarhan , Nassir Navab , Abouzar Eslami , Shadi Albarqouni

Image generating neural networks are mostly viewed as black boxes, where any change in the input can have a number of globally effective changes on the output. In this work, we propose a method for learning disentangled representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Maren Awiszus , Hanno Ackermann , Bodo Rosenhahn