Poster
Identifiable Object-Centric Representation Learning via Probabilistic Slot Attention
Avinash Kori · Francesco Locatello · Ainkaran Santhirasekaram · Francesca Toni · Ben Glocker · Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro
East Exhibit Hall A-C #2406
Learning modular object-centric representations is said to be crucial for systematic generalization. Existing methods show promising object-binding capabilities empirically, but theoretical identifiability guarantees remain relatively underdeveloped. Understanding when object-centric representations can theoretically be identified is important for scaling slot-based methods to high-dimensional images with correctness guarantees. To that end, we propose a probabilistic slot-attention algorithm that imposes an aggregate mixture prior over object-centric slot representations, thereby providing slot identifiability guarantees without supervision, up to an equivalence relation. We provide empirical verification of our theoretical identifiability result using both simple 2-dimensional data and high-resolution imaging datasets.
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