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Generally, the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) heavily depends on the quality of data representation learning. Our preliminary work has emphasized the significance of deep representation learning (DRL) in the context of speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yang Xiang , Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu , ZhaoHui Yin

Predictive models trained on observational data often fail to generalise to the distributions they encounter when deployed, especially when the training data is a product of the system being optimised. Recommender systems are a canonical…

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Despite the multifaceted recent advances in interventional causal representation learning (CRL), they primarily focus on the stylized assumption of single-node interventions. This assumption is not valid in a wide range of applications, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Burak Varıcı , Emre Acartürk , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Ali Tajer

Accurately predicting counterfactual user feedback is essential for building effective recommender systems. However, latent confounding bias can obscure the true causal relationship between user feedback and item exposure, ultimately…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianfeng Deng , Qingfeng Chen , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Shichao Zhang

Causal representation learning (CRL) and traditional representation learning have largely developed along different trajectories. Traditional representation learning has been driven mainly by applications and empirical objectives, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yan Li , Yuewen Sun , Shaoan Xie , Gongxu Luo , Yunlong Deng , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

Causal representation learning (CRL) seeks to recover latent variables with identifiability guarantees, typically up to permutation and component-wise reparameterization under appropriate assumptions. However, identifiability does not imply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shicheng Fan , Nour Elhendawy , Jianle Sun , Ke Fang , Kun Zhang , Yihang Wang , Lu Cheng

The study of cells and their responses to genetic or chemical perturbations promises to accelerate the discovery of therapeutic targets. However, designing adequate and insightful models for such data is difficult because the response of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Haiyi Mao , Romain Lopez , Kai Liu , Jan-Christian Hütter , David Richmond , Panayiotis V. Benos , Lin Qiu

Recently in the field of unsupervised representation learning, strong identifiability results for disentanglement of causally-related latent variables have been established by exploiting certain side information, such as class labels, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Weiran Yao , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has gained significant research interest in recent years due to its potential applications in real-world scenarios. However, existing VLN methods struggle with the issue of spurious associations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Ronghao Dang , Huiyi Chen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revealed complex cellular heterogeneity, but recent studies emphasize that understanding biological function also requires modeling cell-cell communication (CCC), the signaling interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Cong Qi , Yeqing Chen , Zhi Wei

Learning disentanglement aims at finding a low dimensional representation which consists of multiple explanatory and generative factors of the observational data. The framework of variational autoencoder (VAE) is commonly used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mengyue Yang , Furui Liu , Zhitang Chen , Xinwei Shen , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang

The task of causal representation learning aims to uncover latent higher-level causal variables that affect lower-level observations. Identifying the true latent causal variables from observed data, while allowing instantaneous causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Dong Gong , Mingming Gong , Biwei Huang , Anton van den Hengel , Kun Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Clustering single-cell RNA sequence (scRNA-seq) data poses statistical and computational challenges due to their high-dimensionality and data-sparsity, also known as `dropout' events. Recently, Regularized Auto-Encoder (RAE) based deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Himanshu Asnani , Parag Singla , Prathosh AP

Motivation: Predicting cellular responses to genetic perturbations is essential for understanding biological systems and developing targeted therapeutic strategies. While variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Seungheun Baek , Soyon Park , Yan Ting Chok , Mogan Gim , Jaewoo Kang

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) decompose language model activations into interpretable features, but existing methods reveal only which features activate, not which change model outputs when amplified. We introduce Control Reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seonglae Cho , Zekun Wu , Adriano Koshiyama

Causal Disentangled Representation Learning(CDRL) aims to learn and disentangle low dimensional representations and their underlying causal structure from observations. However, existing disentanglement methods rely on a standard mean-field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yutao Jin , Yuang Tao , Junyong Zhai

Disentangled Representation Learning (DRL) aims to learn a model capable of identifying and disentangling the underlying factors hidden in the observable data in representation form. The process of separating underlying factors of variation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Si'ao Tang , Zihao Wu , Wenwu Zhu

Disentangled representation learning (DRL) aims to identify and decompose underlying factors behind observations, thus facilitating data perception and generation. However, current DRL approaches often rely on the unrealistic assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Baao Xie , Qiuyu Chen , Yunnan Wang , Zequn Zhang , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

Counterfactual inference for continuous rather than binary treatment variables is more common in real-world causal inference tasks. While there are already some sample reweighting methods based on Marginal Structural Model for eliminating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yonghe Zhao , Qiang Huang , Haolong Zeng , Yun Pen , Huiyan Sun

Single-cell perturbation modeling is fundamental for understanding and predicting cellular responses to genetic perturbations. However, existing approaches, from causal representation learning to foundation models, often struggle with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wenkang Jiang , Yuhang Liu , Yichao Cai , Erdun Gao , Jiayi Dong , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Lina Yao , Javen Qinfeng Shi