What does "variational" mean? - Cross Validated
Apr 17, 2018 · Does the use of "variational" always refer to optimization via variational inference? Examples: "Variational auto-encoder" "Variational Bayesian methods" "Variational …
deep learning - When should I use a variational autoencoder as …
Jan 22, 2018 · I understand the basic structure of variational autoencoder and normal (deterministic) autoencoder and the math behind them, but when and why would I prefer one …
bayesian - What are variational autoencoders and to what learning …
Jan 6, 2018 · Even though variational autoencoders (VAEs) are easy to implement and train, explaining them is not simple at all, because they blend concepts from Deep Learning and …
Prior in variational autoencoders - Cross Validated
May 1, 2022 · I am currently dealing with variational autoencoders where I've read the original paper "An introduction to variational Bayes" from Kingma and Welling. I am …
Understanding the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) - Cross Validated
Jun 24, 2022 · I am reading this tutorial about Variational Inference, which includes the following depiction of ELBO as the lower bound on log-likelihood on the third page. In the tutorial, $x_i$ …
regression - What is the difference between Variational Inference …
Jul 13, 2022 · I have been reading about variational inference and it is relation to Bayesian regression. It seems there are two versions The first version is discussed here. The second …
autoencoders - Exploring vae latent space - Cross Validated
Jul 16, 2024 · The SDs of the inferred variational beliefs can indeed be very small, if the network is simply very certain about the values of the latents given the input. For instance, it may be …
machine learning - Variational Autoencoder: balance KL …
Dec 25, 2020 · They are pretty similar than the ones at this thread: Balancing Reconstruction vs KL Loss Variational Autoencoder but I still have the problems and I don't really understand …
Help Understanding Reconstruction Loss In Variational Autoencoder
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kullback leibler - How should I intuitively understand the KL ...
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