Architecture
Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
University of Amsterdam·December 20, 2013
Diederik P. Kingma, Max Welling
View on arXivTL;DR
Introduces the variational autoencoder, a deep generative model with a smooth, samplable latent space.
Why it matters
A foundational generative model and a building block of later systems like latent diffusion.