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Main Authors: Zhang, Yingji, Carvalho, Danilo S., Freitas, André
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01713
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author Zhang, Yingji
Carvalho, Danilo S.
Freitas, André
author_facet Zhang, Yingji
Carvalho, Danilo S.
Freitas, André
contents Disentangled latent spaces usually have better semantic separability and geometrical properties, which leads to better interpretability and more controllable data generation. While this has been well investigated in Computer Vision, in tasks such as image disentanglement, in the NLP domain sentence disentanglement is still comparatively under-investigated. Most previous work have concentrated on disentangling task-specific generative factors, such as sentiment, within the context of style transfer. In this work, we focus on a more general form of sentence disentanglement, targeting the localised modification and control of more general sentence semantic features. To achieve this, we contribute to a novel notion of sentence semantic disentanglement and introduce a flow-based invertible neural network (INN) mechanism integrated with a transformer-based language Autoencoder (AE) in order to deliver latent spaces with better separability properties. Experimental results demonstrate that the model can conform the distributed latent space into a better semantically disentangled sentence space, leading to improved language interpretability and controlled generation when compared to the recent state-of-the-art language VAE models.
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spellingShingle Learning Disentangled Semantic Spaces of Explanations via Invertible Neural Networks
Zhang, Yingji
Carvalho, Danilo S.
Freitas, André
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Disentangled latent spaces usually have better semantic separability and geometrical properties, which leads to better interpretability and more controllable data generation. While this has been well investigated in Computer Vision, in tasks such as image disentanglement, in the NLP domain sentence disentanglement is still comparatively under-investigated. Most previous work have concentrated on disentangling task-specific generative factors, such as sentiment, within the context of style transfer. In this work, we focus on a more general form of sentence disentanglement, targeting the localised modification and control of more general sentence semantic features. To achieve this, we contribute to a novel notion of sentence semantic disentanglement and introduce a flow-based invertible neural network (INN) mechanism integrated with a transformer-based language Autoencoder (AE) in order to deliver latent spaces with better separability properties. Experimental results demonstrate that the model can conform the distributed latent space into a better semantically disentangled sentence space, leading to improved language interpretability and controlled generation when compared to the recent state-of-the-art language VAE models.
title Learning Disentangled Semantic Spaces of Explanations via Invertible Neural Networks
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01713