no code implementations • 2 Dec 2019 • Slava Voloshynovskiy, Mouad Kondah, Shideh Rezaeifar, Olga Taran, Taras Holotyak, Danilo Jimenez Rezende
In particular, we present a new interpretation of VAE family based on the IB framework using a direct decomposition of mutual information terms and show some interesting connections to existing methods such as VAE [2; 3], beta-VAE [11], AAE [12], InfoVAE [5] and VAE/GAN [13].