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This paper introduces a novel model for learning disentangled representations based on Generative Adversarial Networks. The training model is unsupervised without identity information. Unlike InfoGAN in which the disentangled representation is learnt by getting the variational lower bound of the mutual information indirectly, our method introduces a direct way by adding predicting networks and encoder into GANs and measuring the correlation among the encoder outputs. Experiment results on MNIST demonstrate that the proposed model is more generalizable and robust than InfoGAN. With experiments on Celeba-HQ, we show that our model can extract factorial features with complicate datasets and produce results comparable to supervised models.
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We thank the reviewers. This work is supported in part by the Chinese Science Foundation under grant 61771305.
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Xu, S., Wang, J. (2020). Unsupervised Representation Learning Based on Generative Adversarial Networks. In: Zhai, G., Zhou, J., Yang, H., An, P., Yang, X. (eds) Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication. IFTC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1181. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3341-9_6
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