Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

The reparameterization trick turns a variational lower bound into a trainable autoencoder.

Kingma, Welling · ICLR 2014 · Foundations. Read the paper ↗

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What is Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes?
The reparameterization trick turns a variational lower bound into a trainable autoencoder.
Who published Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes, and where?
Kingma, Welling — ICLR 2014 (arXiv:1312.6114).
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