Abstract
Causal representation learning (CRL) is the process of recovering causally-related latent variables from high-dimensional observations. As a label-free inference method, CRL is particularly attractive for applications where data labels are unavailable or impractical to obtain. While there has been significant progress in understanding the identifiability guarantees of CRL, such guarantees often hold under highly stylized assumptions, which temper the direct application to real-world problems. This paper has a two-fold objective for interventional CRL. First, it establishes identifiability guarantees for substantially weaker interventional assumptions, resulting in block disentanglement of the causal variables, where the block structure depends on the realistically available intervention mechanisms. Secondly, the block disentanglement framework is used for embodied visual state estimation, in which the objective is to recover the latent physical variables of a robotic system directly from visual data (images and videos) without labeled data. These two components are critically complementary. The block disentanglement theory delineates identifiability guarantees under weakened assumptions, and the application demonstrates that the resulting objective remains effective in a controlled embodied setting despite further assumption violations, providing a theory-to-practice bridge needed to translate the promise of label-free CRL into practical problems.
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APA 7
Acartürk, E., Kulkarni, P., Datta, P., Shanmugam, K., Varıcı, B., & Tajer, A. (2026). Block Disentanglement in CRL: Bridging Identifiability and Visual State Estimation. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/block-disentanglement-in-crl-bridging-identifiability-and-visual-state-estimation
MLA 9
Acartürk, Emre, et al. "Block Disentanglement in CRL: Bridging Identifiability and Visual State Estimation." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/block-disentanglement-in-crl-bridging-identifiability-and-visual-state-estimation.
Chicago (author–date)
Acartürk, Emre, Pranamya Kulkarni, Puranjay Datta, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Burak Varıcı, and Ali Tajer. 2026. "Block Disentanglement in CRL: Bridging Identifiability and Visual State Estimation." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/block-disentanglement-in-crl-bridging-identifiability-and-visual-state-estimation.
Harvard
Acartürk, E., Kulkarni, P., Datta, P., Shanmugam, K., Varıcı, B. and Tajer, A. (2026) 'Block Disentanglement in CRL: Bridging Identifiability and Visual State Estimation', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/block-disentanglement-in-crl-bridging-identifiability-and-visual-state-estimation.
Vancouver
Acartürk E, Kulkarni P, Datta P, Shanmugam K, Varıcı B, Tajer A. Block Disentanglement in CRL: Bridging Identifiability and Visual State Estimation. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/block-disentanglement-in-crl-bridging-identifiability-and-visual-state-estimation
IEEE
E. Acartürk, P. Kulkarni, P. Datta, K. Shanmugam, B. Varıcı, and A. Tajer, "Block Disentanglement in CRL: Bridging Identifiability and Visual State Estimation," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/block-disentanglement-in-crl-bridging-identifiability-and-visual-state-estimation.