Self-supervised learning disentangled group representation as feature

• Main Authors: WANG, Tan, YUE, Zhongqi, HUANG, Jianqiang, SUN, Qianru, ZHANG, Hanwang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6227; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7230/viewcontent/NIPS2021_Causal_SSL_final.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A good visual representation is an inference map from observations (images) to features (vectors) that faithfully reflects the hidden modularized generative factors (semantics). In this paper, we formulate the notion of “good” representation from a group-theoretic view using Higgins’ definition of d...