Disentangling to Cluster: Gaussian Mixture Variational Ladder Autoencoders

Understand

In clustering we normally output one cluster variable for each datapoint.

• However it is not necessarily the case that there is only one way to partition a given dataset into cluster components.
• For example, one could cluster objects by their colour, or by their type.
• Different attributes form a hierarchy, and we could wish to cluster in any of them.