CAD-VAE: Leveraging Correlation-Aware Latents for Comprehensive Fair Disentanglement
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| author | Ma, Chenrui Xiao, Xi Wang, Tianyang Wang, Xiao Shen, Yanning |
| author_facet | Ma, Chenrui Xiao, Xi Wang, Tianyang Wang, Xiao Shen, Yanning |
| contents | While deep generative models have significantly advanced representation learning, they may inherit or amplify biases and fairness issues by encoding sensitive attributes alongside predictive features. Enforcing strict independence in disentanglement is often unrealistic when target and sensitive factors are naturally correlated. To address this challenge, we propose \textbf{CAD-VAE} (\textbf{C}orrelation-\textbf{A}ware \textbf{D}isentangled \textbf{VAE}), which introduces a correlated latent code to capture the information shared between the target and sensitive attributes. Given this correlated latent, our method effectively separates overlapping factors without extra domain knowledge by directly minimizing the conditional mutual information between target and sensitive codes. A relevance-driven optimization strategy refines the correlated code by efficiently capturing essential correlated features and eliminating redundancy. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that CAD-VAE produces fairer representations, realistic counterfactuals, and improved fairness-aware image editing. Source code is available : https://github.com/merry7cherry/CAD-VAE |
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| spellingShingle | CAD-VAE: Leveraging Correlation-Aware Latents for Comprehensive Fair Disentanglement Ma, Chenrui Xiao, Xi Wang, Tianyang Wang, Xiao Shen, Yanning Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Methodology While deep generative models have significantly advanced representation learning, they may inherit or amplify biases and fairness issues by encoding sensitive attributes alongside predictive features. Enforcing strict independence in disentanglement is often unrealistic when target and sensitive factors are naturally correlated. To address this challenge, we propose \textbf{CAD-VAE} (\textbf{C}orrelation-\textbf{A}ware \textbf{D}isentangled \textbf{VAE}), which introduces a correlated latent code to capture the information shared between the target and sensitive attributes. Given this correlated latent, our method effectively separates overlapping factors without extra domain knowledge by directly minimizing the conditional mutual information between target and sensitive codes. A relevance-driven optimization strategy refines the correlated code by efficiently capturing essential correlated features and eliminating redundancy. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that CAD-VAE produces fairer representations, realistic counterfactuals, and improved fairness-aware image editing. Source code is available : https://github.com/merry7cherry/CAD-VAE |
| title | CAD-VAE: Leveraging Correlation-Aware Latents for Comprehensive Fair Disentanglement |
| topic | Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07938 |