What is a “β Variational Autoencoder”?

I’ve already talked about InfoGAN [1] a couple of times (here, here, and here). InfoGAN is a specific neural network architecture that claims to extract interpretable and semantically meaningful dimensions from unlabeled data sets – exactly what we need in order to automatically extract a conceptual space from data.

InfoGAN is however not the only architecture that makes this claim. Today, I will talk about the β-variational autoencoder (β-VAE) [2] which uses a different approach for reaching the same goal.

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Applying Logic Tensor Networks (Part 2)

In my last LTN blog post, I introduced the overall setting of my experiment. Before I can report on first results, I want and need to describe how we can evaluate the performance of the classifiers in this multi-label classification setting. This is what I’m going to do today.

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