arXiv Machine Learning

Sculpting the Latent Space: Disentanglement with WAE-MMD and Programmable Priors

The paper introduces a new approach to learning disentangled representations by directly sculpting the aggregate posterior using the non‑parametric Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and programmable priors. It demonstrates that traditional Variational Autoencoders and Adversarial Training consistently fail to enforce a factorized latent space, as quantified by the Latent Predictability Score (LPS). The proposed method achieves state‑of‑the‑art unsupervised statistical independence, a 70% reduction in entanglement, optional semi‑supervised semantic alignment, and precise shaping of the posterior without compromising reconstruction quality.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

RePercENT: Scaling Disentangled Representation Learning Beyond Two Modalities

To leverage the full potential of multimodal data, we need representations that go beyond the state-of-the-art alignment and fusion approaches and exploit all cross-modal interactions without sacrificing modality-specific information. Learning disentangled representations is a principled way to identify these underlying shared and unique factors that are hidden in observational data.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

DiscoVL: Unveiling Disentangled C ross-Modal Representation Learning via Orthogonal Adversarial Regularization for V ision-Language Models

DiscoVL introduces a disentangled cross‑modal representation learning framework for vision‑language models, combining orthogonal adversarial regularization with a multi‑branch low‑rank residual aligner to enhance bidirectional visual‑textual interaction. The method decomposes representations into subspaces, enabling cross‑modal feedback at each layer and preventing centroid collapse through an orthogonal adversarial triplet loss. Across 15 benchmarks, DiscoVL consistently outperforms state‑of‑the‑art approaches in base‑to‑novel generalization, cross‑dataset evaluation, and few‑shot learning.

By Mengping Dong, Jinbao Li, Fei Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Unbiased Open World Regularization for Fair Self-Supervised Learning

arXiv:2607. 22149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances, self-supervised learning (SSL) models and Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) remain susceptible to learning spurious biases in the dataset.

By L{\'e}o Nicollier (CB, ATT), Marc Pic (ATT), Pablo Mus{\'e} (CB, IFUMI), Enric Meinhardt-Llopis (CB), Gabriele Facciolo (CB)
arXiv AI
Sep 2

V-Co: A Closer Look at Visual Representation Alignment via Co-Denoising

V-Co investigates visual co-denoising for pixel-space diffusion models, using a unified JiT-based framework to isolate key design choices. The study identifies two essential components: a dual-stream architecture with flexible cross-stream interaction and a perceptual-drifting hybrid loss combined with RMS-based feature rescaling for stronger semantic supervision. Experiments on ImageNet-256 demonstrate that V-Co surpasses baseline pixel-space diffusion and strong prior pixel-diffusion methods at comparable model sizes while requiring fewer training epochs.

By Han Lin, Xichen Pan, Zun Wang, Yue Zhang, Chu Wang, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal