[jmalicki]

They do!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18777

But that doesn't mean a frequentist views a VAE as a generative model!

Putting it another way, Gaussian processes originated as a frequentist technique! But to a frequentist they are not generative.

[hawtads]

Ooh good find, thanks for the link. This will be my bedtime reading for this week :)