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by ipunchghosts 387 days ago
Is what your saying imply that there is a rotation matrix you can apply to each activation output to make it less entangled?
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Not quite. For an underlying semantic concept (e.g., smiling face), you can go from a basis vector [0,1,0,...,0] to the original latent space via a single rotation. You could then induce said concept by manipulating the original latent point by traversing along that linear direction.
I think we are saying the same thing. Please correct me though where I am wrong. You could look at the maps in some way but instead of the basis being one hot dimensions (the standard basis), it could be rotated.
We mention this issue exactly in the fourth paragraph in Section 4 and in Appendix F!