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by highd 3488 days ago
One of the most popular ways of using techniques like this is the "Variational Autoencoder". I've been working on using some alternate distributions with them as of late - it's very interesting, and quite powerful.
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How does this work? You use the VAE to model variables and then somehow get the distribution from them?

Got a link? (I know the basics of VAEs, but I'm missing how to link them to this)

The VAE "coder" is modelling a distribution p(z|x), and the decoder is modelling a distribution p(x|z).

I like these slides: https://home.zhaw.ch/~dueo/bbs/files/vae.pdf