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Learning representations of sets through optimized permutations

Learning representations of sets through optimized permutations
Learning representations of sets through optimized permutations
Representations of sets are challenging to learn because operations on sets should be permutation-invariant. To this end, we propose a Permutation-Optimisation module that learns how to permute a set end-to-end. The permuted set can be further processed to learn a permutation-invariant representation of that set, avoiding a bottleneck in traditional set models. We demonstrate our model's ability to learn permutations and set representations with either explicit or implicit supervision on four datasets, on which we achieve state-of-the-art results: number sorting, image mosaics, classification from image mosaics, and visual question answering.
Zhang, Yan
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Hare, Jonathon
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Prugel-Bennett, Adam
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Zhang, Yan
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Hare, Jonathon
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Prugel-Bennett, Adam
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Zhang, Yan, Hare, Jonathon and Prugel-Bennett, Adam (2019) Learning representations of sets through optimized permutations. International Conference on Learning Representations, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, United States. 06 - 09 May 2019. 26 pp .

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Representations of sets are challenging to learn because operations on sets should be permutation-invariant. To this end, we propose a Permutation-Optimisation module that learns how to permute a set end-to-end. The permuted set can be further processed to learn a permutation-invariant representation of that set, avoiding a bottleneck in traditional set models. We demonstrate our model's ability to learn permutations and set representations with either explicit or implicit supervision on four datasets, on which we achieve state-of-the-art results: number sorting, image mosaics, classification from image mosaics, and visual question answering.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2018
Published date: 6 May 2019
Venue - Dates: International Conference on Learning Representations, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, United States, 2019-05-06 - 2019-05-09

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Local EPrints ID: 427851
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427851
PURE UUID: e9257ae1-dec9-4225-a178-bed649feb1e7
ORCID for Yan Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-3663
ORCID for Jonathon Hare: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2921-4283

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Date deposited: 30 Jan 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:50

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Author: Yan Zhang ORCID iD
Author: Jonathon Hare ORCID iD
Author: Adam Prugel-Bennett

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