1 code implementation • 3 Sep 2019 • Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Zhiyuan Li, Cameron Knight, Sandesh Ghimire, B. Milan Horacek, John Sapp, Linwei Wang
We note that the independence within and the complexity of the latent density are two different properties we constrain when regularizing the posterior density: while the former promotes the disentangling ability of VAE, the latter -- if overly limited -- creates an unnecessary competition with the data reconstruction objective in VAE.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2018 • Prashnna K Gyawali, Cameron Knight, Sandesh Ghimire, B. Milan Horacek, John L. Sapp, Linwei Wang
While deep representation learning has become increasingly capable of separating task-relevant representations from other confounding factors in the data, two significant challenges remain.