Topological degree as a discrete diagnostic for disentanglement, with applications to the $\Delta$VAE

Mahefa Ratsisetraina Ravelonanosy, Vlado Menkovski, Jacobus W. Portegies

We investigate the ability of Diffusion Variational Autoencoder ($\Delta$VAE) with unit sphere ${\mathcal{S}}^2$ as latent space to capture topological and geometrical structure and disen…