Enriching Disentanglement: From Logical Definitions to Quantitative Metrics
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11512v2
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:37:32 GMT
- Title: Enriching Disentanglement: From Logical Definitions to Quantitative Metrics
- Authors: Yivan Zhang, Masashi Sugiyama,
- Abstract summary: Disentangling the explanatory factors in complex data is a promising approach for generalizable and data-efficient representation learning.
We establish a theoretical connection between logical definitions of disentanglement and quantitative metrics using topos theory and enriched category theory.
We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed metrics by isolating different aspects of disentangled representations.
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- Abstract: Disentangling the explanatory factors in complex data is a promising approach for generalizable and data-efficient representation learning. While a variety of quantitative metrics for learning and evaluating disentangled representations have been proposed, it remains unclear what properties these metrics truly quantify. In this work, we establish a theoretical connection between logical definitions of disentanglement and quantitative metrics using topos theory and enriched category theory. We introduce a systematic approach for converting a first-order predicate into a real-valued quantity by replacing (i) equality with a strict premetric, (ii) the Heyting algebra of binary truth values with a quantale of continuous values, and (iii) quantifiers with aggregators. The metrics induced by logical definitions have strong theoretical guarantees, and some of them are easily differentiable and can be used as learning objectives directly. Finally, we empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed metrics by isolating different aspects of disentangled representations.
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