Title
Disentangling the Latent Space of (Variational) Autoencoders for NLP.
Abstract
We train multi-task (variational) autoencoders on linguistic tasks and analyze the learned hidden sentence representations. The representations change significantly when translation and part-of-speech decoders are added. The more decoders are attached, the better the models cluster sentences according to their syntactic similarity, as the representation space becomes less entangled. We compare standard unconstrained autoencoders to variational autoencoders and find significant differences. We achieve better disentanglement with the standard autoencoder, which goes against recent work on variational autoencoders in the visual domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-97982-3_13
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS (UKCI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
NLP,Variational,Autoencoder,Disentanglement,Representation learning,Syntax
Autoencoder,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Syntax,Sentence,Feature learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
840
2194-5357
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gino Brunner1205.76
Yuyi Wang22210.01
Rogert Wattenhofer35580384.89
Michael Weigelt420.69