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Interactive Disentanglement: Learning Concepts by Interacting with their Prototype Representations

4 Dec 2021CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2112.02290archive 2025-07-28

Wolfgang Stammer, Marius Memmel, Patrick Schramowski, Kristian Kersting

Learning visual concepts from raw images without strong supervision is a challenging task. In this work, we show the advantages of prototype representations for understanding and revising the latent space of neural concept learners. For this purpose, we introduce interactive Concept Swapping Networks (iCSNs), a novel framework for learning concept-grounded representations via weak supervision and implicit prototype representations. iCSNs learn to bind conceptual information to specific prototype slots by swapping the latent representations of paired images. This semantically grounded and discrete latent space facilitates human understanding and human-machine interaction. We support this claim by conducting experiments on our novel data set "Elementary Concept Reasoning" (ECR), focusing on visual concepts shared by geometric objects.

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