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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…

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Sensory data are often comprised of independent content and transformation factors. For example, face images may have shapes as content and poses as transformation. To infer separately these factors from given data, various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Haruo Hosoya

Learning interpretable representations with variational autoencoders (VAEs) is a major goal of representation learning. The main challenge lies in obtaining disentangled representations, where each latent dimension corresponds to a distinct…

Disentangled representations seek to recover latent factors of variation underlying observed data, yet their identifiability is still not fully understood. We introduce a unified framework in which disentanglement is achieved through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Stefan Matthes , Zhiwei Han , Hao Shen

As we enter the era of machine learning characterized by an overabundance of data, discovery, organization, and interpretation of the data in an unsupervised manner becomes a critical need. One promising approach to this endeavour is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa

In representation learning, there has been recent interest in developing algorithms to disentangle the ground-truth generative factors behind a dataset, and metrics to quantify how fully this occurs. However, these algorithms and metrics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Andrew Slavin Ross , Finale Doshi-Velez

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

Current autoencoder-based disentangled representation learning methods achieve disentanglement by penalizing the (aggregate) posterior to encourage statistical independence of the latent factors. This approach introduces a trade-off between…

Recent progress in deep generative models has led to tremendous breakthroughs in image generation. However, while existing models can synthesize photorealistic images, they lack an understanding of our underlying 3D world. We present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jun-Yan Zhu , Zhoutong Zhang , Chengkai Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , William T. Freeman

Deep latent-variable models learn representations of high-dimensional data in an unsupervised manner. A number of recent efforts have focused on learning representations that disentangle statistically independent axes of variation by…

One of the fundamental representation learning tasks is unsupervised sequential disentanglement, where latent codes of inputs are decomposed to a single static factor and a sequence of dynamic factors. To extract this latent information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Idan Arbiv , Gal Fadlon , Omri Azencot

Typically, a medical image offers spatial information on the anatomy (and pathology) modulated by imaging specific characteristics. Many imaging modalities including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT) can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Agisilaos Chartsias , Thomas Joyce , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Michelle Williams , David Newby , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) learn representations of data by jointly training a probabilistic encoder and decoder network. Typically these models encode all features of the data into a single variable. Here we are interested in learning…

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

Composition-the ability to generate myriad variations from finite means-is believed to underlie powerful generalization. However, compositional generalization remains a key challenge for deep learning. A widely held assumption is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiyao Liang , Daoyuan Qian , Liu Ziyin , Ila Fiete

Disentangling factors of variation within data has become a very challenging problem for image generation tasks. Current frameworks for training a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), learn to disentangle the representations of the data in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Hadi Kazemi , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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

We describe a method to train a generative model with latent factors that are (approximately) independent and localized. This means that perturbing the latent variables affects only local regions of the synthesized image, corresponding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yanchao Yang , Yutong Chen , Stefano Soatto

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

We make two theoretical contributions to disentanglement learning by (a) defining precise semantics of disentangled representations, and (b) establishing robust metrics for evaluation. First, we characterize the concept "disentangled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Kien Do , Truyen Tran