Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective
SDSC, The Auditorium 9836 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, San DiegoAbstract: Representation learning constructs low-dimensional representations to summarize essential features of high-dimensional data like images and texts. Ideally, such a representation should efficiently capture non-spurious features of the data. It shall also be disentangled so that we can interpret what feature each of its dimensions captures. However, these desiderata are often intuitively defined and challenging to quantify or enforce.
