Discovery of Single Independent Latent Variable

Uri Shaham; Jonathan Svirsky; Ori Katz; Ronen Talmon

Discovery of Single Independent Latent Variable

Uri Shaham, Jonathan Svirsky, Ori Katz, Ronen Talmon

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Latent variable discovery is a central problem in data analysis with a broad range of applications in applied science. In this work, we consider data given as an invertible mixture of two statistically independent components, and assume that one of the components is observed while the other is hidden. Our goal is to recover the hidden component. For this purpose, we propose an autoencoder equipped with a discriminator. Unlike the standard nonlinear ICA problem, which was shown to be non-identifiable, in the special case of ICA we consider here, we show that our approach can recover the component of interest up to entropy-preserving transformation. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach in several tasks, including image synthesis, voice cloning, and fetal ECG extraction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
Editors	S. Koyejo, S. Mohamed, A. Agarwal, D. Belgrave, K. Cho, A. Oh
Publisher	Neural information processing systems foundation
ISBN (Electronic)	9781713871088
State	Published - 2022
Event	36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022 - New Orleans, United States Duration: 28 Nov 2022 → 9 Dec 2022

Publication series

Name	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Volume	35
ISSN (Print)	1049-5258

Conference

Conference	36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	28/11/22 → 9/12/22

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Funding

We thank the reviewers for their important comments and suggestions. The work of OK and RT was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 802735-ERC-DIFFOP. RT acknowledges the support of the Schmidt Career Advancement Chair in AI. We thank the reviewers for their important comments and suggestions. The work of OK and RT was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 802735-ERC-DIFFOP. RT acknowledges the support of the Schmidt Career Advancement Chair in AI.

Funders	Funder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Horizon 2020	802735-ERC-DIFFOP

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Shaham, U., Svirsky, J., Katz, O., & Talmon, R. (2022). Discovery of Single Independent Latent Variable. In S. Koyejo, S. Mohamed, A. Agarwal, D. Belgrave, K. Cho, & A. Oh (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022 (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; Vol. 35). Neural information processing systems foundation.

Shaham, Uri ; Svirsky, Jonathan ; Katz, Ori et al. / Discovery of Single Independent Latent Variable. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022. editor / S. Koyejo ; S. Mohamed ; A. Agarwal ; D. Belgrave ; K. Cho ; A. Oh. Neural information processing systems foundation, 2022. (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems).

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Shaham, U, Svirsky, J, Katz, O & Talmon, R 2022, Discovery of Single Independent Latent Variable. in S Koyejo, S Mohamed, A Agarwal, D Belgrave, K Cho & A Oh (eds), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 35, Neural information processing systems foundation, 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, United States, 28/11/22.

Discovery of Single Independent Latent Variable. / Shaham, Uri; Svirsky, Jonathan; Katz, Ori et al.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022. ed. / S. Koyejo; S. Mohamed; A. Agarwal; D. Belgrave; K. Cho; A. Oh. Neural information processing systems foundation, 2022. (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; Vol. 35).

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