A sober look at the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations and their evaluation

F Locatello, S Bauer, M Lucic, G Rätsch, S Gelly… - Journal of Machine …, 2020 - jmlr.org
The idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is that real-
world data is generated by a few explanatory factors of variation which can be recovered by …

Challenging common assumptions in the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations

F Locatello, S Bauer, M Lucic… - international …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
The key idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is that real-
world data is generated by a few explanatory factors of variation which can be recovered by …

Theory and evaluation metrics for learning disentangled representations

K Do, T Tran - arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09961, 2019 - arxiv.org
We make two theoretical contributions to disentanglement learning by (a) defining precise
semantics of disentangled representations, and (b) establishing robust metrics for …

Disentangling factors of variation using few labels

F Locatello, M Tschannen, S Bauer, G Rätsch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Learning disentangled representations is considered a cornerstone problem in
representation learning. Recently, Locatello et al.(2019) demonstrated that unsupervised …

An identifiable double vae for disentangled representations

G Mita, M Filippone, P Michiardi - … Conference on Machine …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
A large part of the literature on learning disentangled representations focuses on variational
autoencoders (VAEs). Recent developments demonstrate that disentanglement cannot be …

Disentangling by factorising

H Kim, A Mnih - International conference on machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We define and address the problem of unsupervised learning of disentangled
representations on data generated from independent factors of variation. We propose …

Towards a definition of disentangled representations

I Higgins, D Amos, D Pfau, S Racaniere… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
How can intelligent agents solve a diverse set of tasks in a data-efficient manner? The
disentangled representation learning approach posits that such an agent would benefit from …

Variational inference of disentangled latent concepts from unlabeled observations

A Kumar, P Sattigeri, A Balakrishnan - arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00848, 2017 - arxiv.org
Disentangled representations, where the higher level data generative factors are reflected in
disjoint latent dimensions, offer several benefits such as ease of deriving invariant …

Weakly supervised disentanglement with guarantees

R Shu, Y Chen, A Kumar, S Ermon, B Poole - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Learning disentangled representations that correspond to factors of variation in real-world
data is critical to interpretable and human-controllable machine learning. Recently, concerns …

Measuring disentanglement: A review of metrics

MA Carbonneau, J Zaidi, J Boilard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning to disentangle and represent factors of variation in data is an important problem in
artificial intelligence. While many advances have been made to learn these representations …