Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better — mentioned by stochastic_monk

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:12:14 GMT

The equations on this page don't render for me on either Firefox or Chrome, making reading this a little jarring. See their paper [0] for what I think is easier to follow. *A more informative title would be something like "Improving Variational Autoencoders with improved Evidence-Based Lower Bound [ELBO] methods. The "What's wrong with VAEs?" title, followed by paragraphs explaining how VAEs work, made me wonder why I was reading it in the first place, but practically improving ELBO methods for VAE implementations is a meaningful contribution. [0] "Tighter Variational Bounds are Not…

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Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better — mentioned by stochastic_monk