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Disentangling by Factorising
Hyunjik Kim · Andriy Mnih

Wed Jul 11 05:50 AM -- 06:00 AM (PDT) @ A7
in Representation Learning 3 »

We define and address the problem of unsupervised learning of disentangled representations on data generated from independent factors of variation. We propose FactorVAE, a method that disentangles by encouraging the distribution of representations to be factorial and hence independent across the dimensions. We show that it improves upon beta-VAE by providing a better trade-off between disentanglement and reconstruction quality and being more robust to the number of training iterations. Moreover, we highlight the problems of a commonly used disentanglement metric and introduce a new metric that does not suffer from them.

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Hyunjik Kim (DeepMind, University of Oxford)
Andriy Mnih (DeepMind)

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