Learning disentangled representations via product manifold projection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01638v1
• Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:59:59 GMT
• Title: Learning disentangled representations via product manifold projection
• Authors: Marco Fumero, Luca Cosmo, Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodol\`a
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach to disentangle the generative factors of variation underlying a given set of observations. Our method builds upon the idea that the (unknown) low-dimensional manifold underlying the data space can be explicitly modeled as a product of submanifolds.
• Score: 10.677966716893762
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: We propose a novel approach to disentangle the generative factors of variation underlying a given set of observations. Our method builds upon the idea that the (unknown) low-dimensional manifold underlying the data space can be explicitly modeled as a product of submanifolds. This gives rise to a new definition of disentanglement, and to a novel weakly-supervised algorithm for recovering the unknown explanatory factors behind the data. At training time, our algorithm only requires pairs of non i.i.d. data samples whose elements share at least one, possibly multidimensional, generative factor of variation. We require no knowledge on the nature of these transformations, and do not make any limiting assumption on the properties of each subspace. Our approach is easy to implement, and can be successfully applied to different kinds of data (from images to 3D surfaces) undergoing arbitrary transformations. In addition to standard synthetic benchmarks, we showcase our method in challenging real-world applications, where we compare favorably with the state of the art.

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