HackerPapers

arXiv:1906.02691cs.LG

An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders

Diederik P. Kingma, Max Welling

Abstract

Variational autoencoders provide a principled framework for learning deep latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. In this work, we provide an introduction to variational autoencoders and some important extensions.

arXiv comments
Journal reference
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: Vol. 12 (2019): No. 4, pp 307-392
DOI
doi:10.1561/2200000056
Subjects
cs.LGMachine Learning stat.MLMachine Learning (Statistics)

On Hacker News

Linked by 2 identifiable commenters in 2 comments across 2 threads, from Sep 2022 to Mar 2023.

Comments linking this paper, per year.

Discussed in comments2 threads

  1. Introduction to Autoencoders 1 comment
    • Basic autoencoders are conceptually easy, but try to understand how the VAE KL loss was derived. I remember I spent two days reading https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02691 and I still didn't quite get it.

      p1eskView on HNParent context

    • It is fed using a fascinating mechanism called "cross-attention" that originated in the NN architecture called Transformer - which was used to achieve state-of-the-art translations. It uses something like associative memory, where a NN inside Stable Diffusion, that generates…

      DzugaruView on HNParent context

Submitted to Hacker News

Connected through shared HN threads, not inferred similarity or a recommendation.