Theoretical advantages are reflected in experimental results. Diederik P Kingma, et al., "Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes" https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114 通常の自己符号化器(Autoencoder)とは異なり、観測されたデータがある確率分布に基づいて…

Second, we show that for i.i.d. datasets with continuous latent variables per datapoint, posterior inference can be made especially efficient by fitting an approximate inference model (also called a recognition model) to the intractable po…