Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with Information-Theoretic Guidance (2020.acl-main)
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Pengyu Cheng, Martin Renqiang Min, Dinghan Shen, Christopher Malon, Yizhe Zhang, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin
| Challenge: | Disentangled representation learning (DRL) maps different aspects of data into distinct and independent low-dimensional latent vector spaces. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that manifests disentangled representations of text without supervision on semantics by minimizing the upper bound between style and content. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on conditional text generation and text-style transfer tasks and improves style preservation. |
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