Month: March 2021
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An information maximization view on the $\beta$-VAE objective
[ad_1] guest post with Dóra Jámbor This is a half-guest-post written jointly with Dóra, a fellow participant in a reading group where we recently discussed the original paper on $beta$-VAEs: On the surface of it, $beta$-VAEs are a straightforward extension of VAEs where we are allowed to directly control the tradeoff between the reconstruction and…