Tag: disentanglement

Mutual Information Collapse Explains Disentanglement Failure in $beta$-VAEs arXiv:2602.09277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The $beta$-VAE is a foundational framework for unsupervised disentanglement, using $beta$ to regulate the trade-off between latent factorization and reconstruction fidelity. Empirically, however, disentanglement performance exhibits a pervasive non-monotonic trend: benchmarks such as MIG and SAP typically peak at intermediate $beta$ and…