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The variational fair autoencoder

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abstract

We investigate the problem of learning representations that are invariant to certain nuisance or sensitive factors of variation in the data while retaining as much of the remaining information as possible. Our model is based on a variational autoencoding architecture with priors that encourage independence between sensitive and latent factors of variation. Any subsequent processing, such as classification, can then be performed on this purged latent representation. To remove any remaining dependencies we incorporate an additional penalty term based on the "Maximum Mean Discrepancy" (MMD) measure. We discuss how these architectures can be efficiently trained on data and show in experiments that this method is more effective than previous work in removing unwanted sources of variation while maintaining informative latent representations.

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2026 3 2016 1

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Deep Variational Information Bottleneck

cs.LG · 2016-12-01 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

Deep VIB is a neural-network parameterization of the information bottleneck objective trained via variational inference and the reparameterization trick, yielding improved generalization and adversarial robustness.

Distributed Deep Variational Approach for Privacy-preserving Data Release

cs.CR · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

GPP trains local variational encoders in federated settings to release representations that keep utility within 1% of an autoencoder baseline while driving adversary AUC on sensitive attributes to near-random levels on MNIST, CelebA, and HAPT data.

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  • Deep Variational Information Bottleneck cs.LG · 2016-12-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 22 · internal anchor

    Deep VIB is a neural-network parameterization of the information bottleneck objective trained via variational inference and the reparameterization trick, yielding improved generalization and adversarial robustness.

  • Mitigating Shortcut Learning via Feature Disentanglement in Medical Imaging: A Benchmark Study cs.CV · 2026-02-17 · unverdicted · none · ref 42 · internal anchor

    Benchmark shows that combining data rebalancing with feature disentanglement mitigates shortcut learning more effectively than rebalancing alone in medical imaging models.

  • Fair Dataset Distillation via Cross-Group Barycenter Alignment cs.LG · 2026-04-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 33

    Dataset distillation introduces fairness gaps from subgroup pattern mismatches rather than just imbalance; distilling to a group-agnostic barycenter of predictive information reduces these gaps.

  • Distributed Deep Variational Approach for Privacy-preserving Data Release cs.CR · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 43

    GPP trains local variational encoders in federated settings to release representations that keep utility within 1% of an autoencoder baseline while driving adversary AUC on sensitive attributes to near-random levels on MNIST, CelebA, and HAPT data.