Francesco Locatello
71 papers · 2017–2025 · 11 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Papers
How to Probe: Simple Yet Effective Techniques for Improving Post-hoc Explanations
ICLR 2025
Mechanistic PDE Networks for Discovery of Governing Equations
ICML 2025
Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models' scene understanding
ICLR 2025
Scalable Mechanistic Neural Networks
ICLR 2025
Score matching through the roof: linear, nonlinear, and latent variables causal discovery
CLeaR 2025
Unifying Causal Representation Learning with the Invariance Principle
ICLR 2025
Adaptive Slot Attention: Object Discovery with Dynamic Slot Number
CVPR 2024
A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning
ICML 2024
Grounded Object-Centric Learning
ICLR 2024
Identifiable Object-Centric Representation Learning via Probabilistic Slot Attention
NeurIPS 2024
Identifying General Mechanism Shifts in Linear Causal Representations
NeurIPS 2024
Latent Functional Maps: a spectral framework for representation alignment
NeurIPS 2024
Marrying Causal Representation Learning with Dynamical Systems for Science
NeurIPS 2024
Mechanistic Neural Networks for Scientific Machine Learning
ICML 2024
Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability
ICLR 2024
Self-Compatibility: Evaluating Causal Discovery without Ground Truth
AISTATS 2024
Smoke and Mirrors in Causal Downstream Tasks
NeurIPS 2024
Unsupervised Concept Discovery Mitigates Spurious Correlations
ICML 2024
ASIF: Coupled Data Turns Unimodal Models to Multimodal without Training
NeurIPS 2023
Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching
NeurIPS 2023
Benign Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks under Lazy Training
ICML 2023
Bridging the Gap to Real-World Object-Centric Learning
ICLR 2023
Causal Discovery with Score Matching on Additive Models with Arbitrary Noise
CLeaR 2023
Causal Triplet: An Open Challenge for Intervention-centric Causal Representation Learning
CLeaR 2023
Latent Space Translation via Semantic Alignment
NeurIPS 2023
Leveraging sparse and shared feature activations for disentangled representation learning
NeurIPS 2023
Object-Centric Multiple Object Tracking
ICCV 2023
Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication
ICLR 2023
Rotating Features for Object Discovery
NeurIPS 2023
Sample Complexity Bounds for Score-Matching: Causal Discovery and Generative Modeling
NeurIPS 2023
Scalable Causal Discovery with Score Matching
CLeaR 2023
TeST: Test-Time Self-Training Under Distribution Shift
WACV 2023
Unsupervised Object Learning via Common Fate
CLeaR 2023
Unsupervised Open-Vocabulary Object Localization in Videos
ICCV 2023
Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation with Self-supervised Object-centric Representations
ICLR 2023
Are Two Heads the Same as One? Identifying Disparate Treatment in Fair Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2022
Assaying Out-Of-Distribution Generalization in Transfer Learning
NeurIPS 2022
Faster One-Sample Stochastic Conditional Gradient Method for Composite Convex Minimization
AISTATS 2022
Generalization and Robustness Implications in Object-Centric Learning
ICML 2022
Leveling Down in Computer Vision: Pareto Inefficiencies in Fair Deep Classifiers
CVPR 2022
Neural Attentive Circuits
NeurIPS 2022
Score Matching Enables Causal Discovery of Nonlinear Additive Noise Models
ICML 2022
Self-supervised Amodal Video Object Segmentation
NeurIPS 2022
The Role of Pretrained Representations for the OOD Generalization of RL Agents
ICLR 2022
Visual Representation Learning Does Not Generalize Strongly Within the Same Domain
ICLR 2022
You Mostly Walk Alone: Analyzing Feature Attribution in Trajectory Prediction
ICLR 2022
Backward-Compatible Prediction Updates: A Probabilistic Approach
NeurIPS 2021
Boosting Variational Inference With Locally Adaptive Step-Sizes
IJCAI 2021
Dynamic Inference with Neural Interpreters
NeurIPS 2021
Neighborhood Contrastive Learning Applied to Online Patient Monitoring
ICML 2021
On Disentangled Representations Learned from Correlated Data
ICML 2021
On the Transfer of Disentangled Representations in Realistic Settings
ICLR 2021
Self-Supervised Learning with Data Augmentations Provably Isolates Content from Style
NeurIPS 2021
A Sober Look at the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations and their Evaluation
JMLR 2020
Disentangling Factors of Variations Using Few Labels
ICLR 2020
Object-Centric Learning with Slot Attention
NeurIPS 2020
Stochastic Frank-Wolfe for Constrained Finite-Sum Minimization
ICML 2020
Weakly-Supervised Disentanglement Without Compromises
ICML 2020
Are Disentangled Representations Helpful for Abstract Visual Reasoning?
NeurIPS 2019
Challenging Common Assumptions in the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations
ICML 2019
On the Fairness of Disentangled Representations
NeurIPS 2019
On the Transfer of Inductive Bias from Simulation to the Real World: a New Disentanglement Dataset
NeurIPS 2019
SOM-VAE: Interpretable Discrete Representation Learning on Time Series
ICLR 2019
Stochastic Frank-Wolfe for Composite Convex Minimization
NeurIPS 2019
The Incomplete Rosetta Stone problem: Identifiability results for Multi-view Nonlinear ICA
UAI 2019
A Conditional Gradient Framework for Composite Convex Minimization with Applications to Semidefinite Programming
ICML 2018
Boosting Black Box Variational Inference
NeurIPS 2018
Boosting Variational Inference: an Optimization Perspective
AISTATS 2018
On Matching Pursuit and Coordinate Descent
ICML 2018
A Unified Optimization View on Generalized Matching Pursuit and Frank-Wolfe
AISTATS 2017
Greedy Algorithms for Cone Constrained Optimization with Convergence Guarantees
NeurIPS 2017