Dependency sparsity can isolate world latents without reconstructing observations

DSReg rotates linearly identified representations into individual latent factors when those factors have distinct dependency patterns.

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Yujia Zheng · David Klindt · Randall Balestriero · Bernhard Schölkopf

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Brown University · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · ELLIS Institute Tübingen

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Zheng et al.

The authors begin with representations such as those produced by LeJEPA, which can contain the complete latent state while leaving its components mixed by an unknown linear transformation.

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From Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and 4 others

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Under Structural Diversity, DSReg recovers individual world latents up to signed permutation without reconstruction, decoders, labels, or non-Gaussian assumptions.

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