Summary of Cfasl: Composite Factor-aligned Symmetry Learning For Disentanglement in Variational Autoencoder, by Hee-jun Jung et al.
CFASL: Composite Factor-Aligned Symmetry Learning for Disentanglement in Variational AutoEncoder
by Hee-Jun Jung, Jaehyoung Jeong, Kangil Kim
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method, Composite Factor-Aligned Symmetry Learning (CFASL), is an unsupervised approach for learning symmetry-based disentanglement in Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) without requiring known factor information. It integrates three novel features: injecting inductive bias to align latent vectors with symmetries, learning a composite symmetry to express unknown factors, and inducing group equivariant encoders and decoders. This method demonstrates significant improvements in disentanglement for both single-factor and multi-factor change conditions compared to state-of-the-art methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way of teaching computers to separate mixed-up data into meaningful groups is developed. This approach, called CFASL, doesn’t need to know what the mixed-up data represents beforehand. It uses three clever techniques: making sure the computer’s internal “codebook” matches the patterns it finds in the data, creating a special code that can express changes in the data, and designing the computer’s “encoder” and “decoder” to work together seamlessly. This new method does a better job of separating mixed-up data into meaningful groups than current methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Decoder * Encoder * Unsupervised
