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Recently, the disentangled latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE) has been used to reason about multi-label out-of-distribution (OOD) test samples that are derived from different distributions than training samples. Disentangled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zahra Rahiminasab , Michael Yuhas , Arvind Easwaran

Learning disentangled representations is considered a cornerstone problem in representation learning. Recently, Locatello et al. (2019) demonstrated that unsupervised disentanglement learning without inductive biases is theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Francesco Locatello , Michael Tschannen , Stefan Bauer , Gunnar Rätsch , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

Disentangled representation learning remains challenging as the underlying factors of variation in the data do not naturally exist. The inherent complexity of real-world data makes it unfeasible to exhaustively enumerate and encapsulate all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jiawei Zhou , Xiaoguang Li , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Lei Chen

Confounding bias is a crucial problem when applying machine learning to practice, especially in clinical practice. We consider the problem of learning representations independent to multiple biases. In literature, this is mostly solved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xianjing Liu , Bo Li , Esther Bron , Wiro Niessen , Eppo Wolvius , Gennady Roshchupkin

Domain mismatch problem caused by speaker-unrelated feature has been a major topic in speaker recognition. In this paper, we propose an explicit disentanglement framework to unravel speaker-relevant features from speaker-unrelated features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Minchan Kim , Dongjune Lee , Nam Soo Kim

With its significant performance improvements, the deep learning paradigm has become a standard tool for modern image denoisers. While promising performance has been shown on seen noise distributions, existing approaches often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hao Chen , Chenyuan Qu , Yu Zhang , Chen Chen , Jianbo Jiao

Recommendation algorithms forecast user preferences by correlating user and item representations derived from historical interaction patterns. In pursuit of enhanced performance, many methods focus on learning robust and independent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Zhenyang Li , Fan Liu , Yinwei Wei , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Symmetry-based disentangled representation learning leverages the group structure of environment transformations to uncover the latent factors of variation. Prior approaches to symmetry-based disentanglement have required strong prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Barthélémy Dang-Nhu , Louis Annabi , Sylvain Argentieri

Vision-and-language (V-L) tasks require the system to understand both vision content and natural language, thus learning fine-grained joint representations of vision and language (a.k.a. V-L representations) is of paramount importance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Shen Ge , Xuancheng Ren , Wei Fan , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

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…

Scientific datasets often arise from multiple independent mechanisms such as spatial, categorical or structural effects, whose combined influence obscures their individual contributions. We introduce DIVIDE, a framework that disentangles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vivek Chawla , Boris Slautin , Utkarsh Pratiush , Dayakar Penumadu , Sergei Kalinin

Disentanglement is a useful property in representation learning which increases the interpretability of generative models such as Variational autoencoders (VAE), Generative Adversarial Models, and their many variants. Typically in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Arun Pandey , Michael Fanuel , Joachim Schreurs , Johan A. K. Suykens

Recent research has made the surprising finding that state-of-the-art deep learning models sometimes fail to generalize to small variations of the input. Adversarial training has been shown to be an effective approach to overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Sven Gowal , Chongli Qin , Po-Sen Huang , Taylan Cemgil , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

Neural operators (NOs) excel at learning mappings between function spaces, serving as efficient forward solution approximators for PDE-governed systems. However, as black-box solvers, they offer limited insight into the underlying physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ning Liu , Lu Zhang , Tian Gao , Yue Yu

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

The goal of the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is to separate the independent explanatory factors of variation in the data without access to supervision. In this paper, we summarize the results of Locatello et al.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Francesco Locatello , Stefan Bauer , Mario Lucic , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

Vision Transformers face a fundamental limitation: standard self-attention jointly processes spatial and channel dimensions, leading to entangled representations that prevent independent modeling of structural and semantic dependencies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiashu Liao , Pietro Liò , Marc de Kamps , Duygu Sarikaya

Deep latent variable models (DLVMs) are designed to learn meaningful representations in an unsupervised manner, such that the hidden explanatory factors are interpretable by independent latent variables (aka disentanglement). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Surojit Saha , Sarang Joshi , Ross Whitaker

Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are often unable to generalise well to environment variations in the state space that were not observed during training. This issue is especially problematic for image-based RL, where a change in just one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mhairi Dunion , Trevor McInroe , Kevin Sebastian Luck , Josiah P. Hanna , Stefano V. Albrecht

Deep generative models come with the promise to learn an explainable representation for visual objects that allows image sampling, synthesis, and selective modification. The main challenge is to learn to properly model the independent…

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