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Auteurs principaux: Skenderi, Geri, Capogrosso, Luigi, Toaiari, Andrea, Denitto, Matteo, Fummi, Franco, Melzi, Simone
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Publié: 2023
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09278
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author Skenderi, Geri
Capogrosso, Luigi
Toaiari, Andrea
Denitto, Matteo
Fummi, Franco
Melzi, Simone
author_facet Skenderi, Geri
Capogrosso, Luigi
Toaiari, Andrea
Denitto, Matteo
Fummi, Franco
Melzi, Simone
contents Auxiliary tasks facilitate learning in situations where data is scarce or the principal task of interest is extremely complex. This idea is primarily inspired by the improved generalization capability induced by solving multiple tasks simultaneously, which leads to a more robust shared representation. Nevertheless, finding optimal auxiliary tasks is a crucial problem that often requires hand-crafted solutions or expensive meta-learning approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, dubbed Detaux, whereby a weakly supervised disentanglement procedure is used to discover a new unrelated auxiliary classification task, which allows us to go from a Single-Task Learning (STL) to a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) problem. The disentanglement procedure works at the representation level, isolating the variation related to the principal task into an isolated subspace and additionally producing an arbitrary number of orthogonal subspaces, each of which encourages high separability among projections. We generate the auxiliary classification task through a clustering procedure on the most disentangled subspace, obtaining a discrete set of labels. Subsequently, the original data, the labels associated with the principal task, and the newly discovered ones can be fed into any MTL framework. Experimental validation on both synthetic and real data, along with various ablation studies, demonstrates promising results, revealing the potential in what has been, so far, an unexplored connection between learning disentangled representations and MTL. The source code is available at https://github.com/intelligolabs/Detaux.
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spellingShingle Disentangled Latent Spaces Facilitate Data-Driven Auxiliary Learning
Skenderi, Geri
Capogrosso, Luigi
Toaiari, Andrea
Denitto, Matteo
Fummi, Franco
Melzi, Simone
Machine Learning
Auxiliary tasks facilitate learning in situations where data is scarce or the principal task of interest is extremely complex. This idea is primarily inspired by the improved generalization capability induced by solving multiple tasks simultaneously, which leads to a more robust shared representation. Nevertheless, finding optimal auxiliary tasks is a crucial problem that often requires hand-crafted solutions or expensive meta-learning approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, dubbed Detaux, whereby a weakly supervised disentanglement procedure is used to discover a new unrelated auxiliary classification task, which allows us to go from a Single-Task Learning (STL) to a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) problem. The disentanglement procedure works at the representation level, isolating the variation related to the principal task into an isolated subspace and additionally producing an arbitrary number of orthogonal subspaces, each of which encourages high separability among projections. We generate the auxiliary classification task through a clustering procedure on the most disentangled subspace, obtaining a discrete set of labels. Subsequently, the original data, the labels associated with the principal task, and the newly discovered ones can be fed into any MTL framework. Experimental validation on both synthetic and real data, along with various ablation studies, demonstrates promising results, revealing the potential in what has been, so far, an unexplored connection between learning disentangled representations and MTL. The source code is available at https://github.com/intelligolabs/Detaux.
title Disentangled Latent Spaces Facilitate Data-Driven Auxiliary Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09278