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Variational Autoencoder (VAE)

Models & Architectures

Probabilistic autoencoder for generative modeling.


VAEs model a probability distribution in latent space, allowing new samples to be drawn.

  • Core idea: Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) combining reconstruction and KL divergence terms.
  • Strengths: Smooth latent space, probabilistic interpretation.
  • Weaknesses: May produce blurrier samples than GANs.