cs.AIJul 19, 2026

Coordinated Disentanglement with Iterative Mode Discovery Under Hidden Correlations

Authors: Rong HuLing Chen

Abstract

Disentangled representation learning is a powerful paradigm for robust attribute prediction. While recent methods address attribute correlations, hidden correlations remain underexplored, where data under the value of a certain attribute exhibit underlying modes correlated with other attributes. To preserve mode information and achieve disentanglement, we jointly discover modes and enforce mode-based conditional independence. Yet, the interdependency between these two modules may lead to error amplification under naive iterations. We propose Coordinated Disentanglement with Iterative mode Discovery (CoDID), an end-to-end framework featuring a dynamic architecture that adapts to evolving number of modes, and a coordination mechanism that mitigates error amplification via meta-optimization. Empirical results demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance on diverse tasks.

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