Title
Unsupervised Adversarial Invariance.
Abstract
Data representations that contain all the information about target variables but are invariant to nuisance factors benefit supervised learning algorithms by preventing them from learning associations between these factors and the targets, thus reducing overfitting. We present a novel unsupervised invariance induction framework for neural networks that learns a split representation of data through competitive training between the prediction task and a reconstruction task coupled with disentanglement, without needing any labeled information about nuisance factors or domain knowledge. We describe an adversarial instantiation of this framework and provide analysis of its working. Our unsupervised model outperforms state-of-the-art methods, which are supervised, at inducing invariance to inherent nuisance factors, effectively using synthetic data augmentation to learn invariance, and domain adaptation. Our method can be applied to any prediction task, eg., binary/multi-class classification or regression, without loss of generality.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 31 (NIPS 2018)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
31
1049-5258
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ayush Jaiswal172.17
Yue Wu233131.69
Wael Abd-Almageed324824.52
Premkumar Natarajan487479.46