Autoencoding slow representations for semi-supervised data-efficient regression

DOI10.1007/S10994-022-06299-1arXiv2012.06279OpenAlexW3181511343MaRDI QIDQ6134318FDOQ6134318

Authors: Oliver Struckmeier, Kshitij Tiwari, Ville Kyrki 

Publication date: 22 August 2023

Published in: Machine Learning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The slowness principle is a concept inspired by the visual cortex of the brain. It postulates that the underlying generative factors of a quickly varying sensory signal change on a slower time scale. Unsupervised learning of intermediate representations utilizing abundant unlabeled sensory data can be leveraged to perform data-efficient supervised downstream regression. In this paper, we propose a general formulation of slowness for unsupervised representation learning adding a slowness regularization term to the estimate lower bound of the beta-VAE to encourage temporal similarity in observation and latent space. Within this framework we compare existing slowness regularization terms such as the L1 and L2 loss used in existing end-to-end methods, the SlowVAE and propose a new term based on Brownian motion. We empirically evaluate these slowness regularization terms with respect to their downstream task performance and data efficiency. We find that slow representations lead to equal or better downstream task performance and data efficiency in different experiment domains when compared to representations without slowness regularization. Finally, we discuss how the Frechet Inception Distance (FID), traditionally used to determine the generative capabilities of GANs, can serve as a measure to predict the performance of pre-trained Autoencoder model in a supervised downstream task and accelerate hyperparameter search.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06279

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zbMATH Keywords

unsupervised representation learningslowness principledata-efficient downstream tasks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

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