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by phreeza 3596 days ago
Isn't that a desirable feature though? It means your latent features are uncorrelated, which arguably makes them more interpretable? For example you could get gender and hair color instead of (0.5gender + 0.5colo)r and (0.5 gender - 0.5 hair color)
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They shouldn't be uncorrelated given x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox