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Learning disentangled representations of real-world data is a challenging open problem. Most previous methods have focused on either supervised approaches which use attribute labels or unsupervised approaches that manipulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vikash Balasubramanian , Ivan Kobyzev , Hareesh Bahuleyan , Ilya Shapiro , Olga Vechtomova

Understating and controlling generative models' latent space is a complex task. In this paper, we propose a novel method for learning to control any desired attribute in a pre-trained GAN's latent space, for the purpose of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Nir Diamant , Nitsan Sandor , Alex M Bronstein

Unlearning specific concepts in text-to-image diffusion models has become increasingly important for preventing undesirable content generation. Among prior approaches, sparse autoencoder (SAE)-based methods have attracted attention due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hyeonjin Kim , Hangyeol Jung , Heechan Yun , Sungjun Yun , Dong-Jun Han

A crucial problem in learning disentangled image representations is controlling the degree of disentanglement during image editing, while preserving the identity of objects. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective model with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zengjie Song , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Jiangshe Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize realistic images, with the learned latent space shown to encode rich semantic information with various interpretable directions. However, due to the unstructured nature of the learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zikun Chen , Han Zhao , Parham Aarabi , Ruowei Jiang

Recent advances in high-fidelity semantic image editing heavily rely on the presumably disentangled latent spaces of the state-of-the-art generative models, such as StyleGAN. Specifically, recent works show that it is possible to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Valentin Khrulkov , Leyla Mirvakhabova , Ivan Oseledets , Artem Babenko

Existing methods in Multimodal Knowledge Editing (MKE) have advanced the ability to correct outdated or inaccurate knowledge in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, they exhibit a critical limitation: while effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Leijiang Gu , Zhen Zeng , Feng Li , Xinjian Gao , Zenglin Shi

Building facial analysis systems that generalize to extreme variations in lighting and facial expressions is a challenging problem that can potentially be alleviated using natural-looking synthetic data. Towards that, we propose LEGAN, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Sandipan Banerjee , Ajjen Joshi , Prashant Mahajan , Sneha Bhattacharya , Survi Kyal , Taniya Mishra

Existing methods for face image manipulation generally focus on editing the expression, changing some predefined attributes, or applying different filters. However, users lack the flexibility of controlling the shapes of different semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Sen-Zhe Xu , Hao-Zhi Huang , Shi-Min Hu , Wei Liu

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

Controllable semantic image editing enables a user to change entire image attributes with a few clicks, e.g., gradually making a summer scene look like it was taken in winter. Classic approaches for this task use a Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Peiye Zhuang , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Alexander G. Schwing

Image classification models tend to make decisions based on peripheral attributes of data items that have strong correlation with a target variable (i.e., dataset bias). These biased models suffer from the poor generalization capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jungsoo Lee , Eungyeup Kim , Juyoung Lee , Jihyeon Lee , Jaegul Choo

Dense embeddings deliver strong retrieval performance but often lack interpretability and controllability. This paper introduces a novel approach using sparse autoencoders (SAE) to interpret and control dense embeddings via the learned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hao Kang , Tevin Wang , Chenyan Xiong

Changing an attribute of a text without changing the content usually requires to first disentangle the text into irrelevant attributes and content representations. After that, in the inference phase, the representation of one attribute is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Lei Sha , Thomas Lukasiewicz

We present a framework for training GANs with explicit control over generated images. We are able to control the generated image by settings exact attributes such as age, pose, expression, etc. Most approaches for editing GAN-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Gerard Medioni

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

One-shot video-driven talking face generation aims at producing a synthetic talking video by transferring the facial motion from a video to an arbitrary portrait image. Head pose and facial expression are always entangled in facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Youxin Pang , Yong Zhang , Weize Quan , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Dong-ming Yan

Text-driven image editing enables users to flexibly modify visual content through natural language instructions, and is widely applied to tasks such as semantic object replacement, insertion, and removal. While recent inversion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Liangyang Ouyang , Jiafeng Mao

This work introduces a novel principle for disentanglement we call mechanism sparsity regularization, which applies when the latent factors of interest depend sparsely on observed auxiliary variables and/or past latent factors. We propose a…

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to extract human-interpretable features from neural network activations, but their learned features can vary substantially across random seeds and training choices. To improve stability, we studied…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Piotr Jedryszek , Oliver M. Crook