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Variational autoencoder

In machine learning, a variational autoencoder (VAE) is an artificial neural network architecture introduced by Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling in 2013. It is part of the families of probabilistic graphical models and variational Bayesian methods.

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Evidence lower bound (ELBO)

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Variational autoencoder

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Variational autoencoder

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Variational autoencoder → An Introduction, Diederik, Foundations, ISSN, Kingma, Machine Learning, Max, Now Publishers, Trends, Variational Autoencoders, Welling
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Variational autoencoder → generative model with a prior and noise distribution respectively

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Variational autoencoderrelated to Further readingAn Introduction0.60section
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