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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

Disentanglement is at the forefront of unsupervised learning, as disentangled representations of data improve generalization, interpretability, and performance in downstream tasks. Current unsupervised approaches remain inapplicable for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Benjamin Estermann , Markus Marks , Mehmet Fatih Yanik

We propose a framework for distributed robust statistical learning on {\em big contaminated data}. The Distributed Robust Learning (DRL) framework can reduce the computational time of traditional robust learning methods by several orders of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-10 Jiashi Feng , Huan Xu , Shie Mannor

Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dmitry Shribak , Chen-Xiao Gao , Yitong Li , Chenjun Xiao , Bo Dai

Diffusion models have established themselves as state-of-the-art generative models across various data modalities, including images and videos, due to their ability to accurately approximate complex data distributions. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Wesego

We introduce a method to disentangle controllable and uncontrollable factors of variation by interacting with the world. Disentanglement leads to good representations and is important when applying deep neural networks (DNNs) in fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Yoshihide Sawada

This paper explores self-supervised disentangled representation learning within sequential data, focusing on separating time-independent and time-varying factors in videos. We propose a new model that breaks the usual independence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Mathieu Cyrille Simon , Pascal Frossard , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Disentangling the encodings of neural models is a fundamental aspect for improving interpretability, semantic control and downstream task performance in Natural Language Processing. Currently, most disentanglement methods are unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Danilo S. Carvalho , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Yingji Zhang , Andre Freitas

The focus of disentanglement approaches has been on identifying independent factors of variation in data. However, the causal variables underlying real-world observations are often not statistically independent. In this work, we bridge the…

Graph-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fan Huang , Wei Wang

Domain adaptation is an important but challenging task. Most of the existing domain adaptation methods struggle to extract the domain-invariant representation on the feature space with entangling domain information and semantic information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ruichu Cai , Zijian Li , Pengfei Wei , Jie Qiao , Kun Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

The group recommendation (GR) aims to suggest items for a group of users in social networks. Existing work typically considers individual preferences as the sole factor in aggregating group preferences. Actually, social influence is also an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Guangze Ye , Wen Wu , Guoqing Wang , Xi Chen , Hong Zheng , Liang He

Imitation learning aims to learn a policy from observing expert demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) formulates imitation learning as adversarial learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Chun-Mao Lai , Hsiang-Chun Wang , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen , Shao-Hua Sun

Person image synthesis with controllable body poses and appearances is an essential task owing to the practical needs in the context of virtual try-on, image editing and video production. However, existing methods face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Enbo Huang , Yuan Zhang , Faliang Huang , Guangyu Zhang , Yang Liu

A disentangled representation encodes information about the salient factors of variation in the data independently. Although it is often argued that this representational format is useful in learning to solve many real-world down-stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Francesco Locatello , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Olivier Bachem

Many multimodal recommender systems have been proposed to exploit the rich side information associated with users or items (e.g., user reviews and item images) for learning better user and item representations to improve the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fan Liu , Huilin Chen , Zhiyong Cheng , Anan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments can produce training data with spurious correlations between features due to the amount of training data or its limited feature coverage. This can lead to RL agents encoding these misleading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Mhairi Dunion , Trevor McInroe , Kevin Sebastian Luck , Josiah P. Hanna , Stefano V. Albrecht

Unsupervised learning enables modeling complex images without the need for annotations. The representation learned by such models can facilitate any subsequent analysis of large image datasets. However, some generative factors that cause…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Maxime W. Lafarge , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

Auxiliary tasks facilitate learning in situations where data is scarce or the principal task of interest is extremely complex. This idea is primarily inspired by the improved generalization capability induced by solving multiple tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Geri Skenderi , Luigi Capogrosso , Andrea Toaiari , Matteo Denitto , Franco Fummi , Simone Melzi

Dynamic resource allocation in mobile wireless networks involves complex, time-varying optimization problems, motivating the adoption of deep reinforcement learning (DRL). However, most existing works rely on pre-trained policies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xinren Zhang , Jiadong Yu