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Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Performs Non-Linear System Identification

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Tobias Schmidt

→ Group Steffen Schneider
Dynamical Inference

Steffen Schneider

Dr.

Associate

Dynamical Inference

Abstract

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal structure and auxiliary variables ensure that latent representations are related to the true underlying generative factors of the data. Here, we deepen this connection and show that SSL can perform system identification in latent space. We propose DynCL, a framework to uncover linear, switching linear and non-linear dynamics under a non-linear observation model, give theoretical guarantees and validate them empirically.

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