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Tutorial: Deriving the Standard Variational Autoencoder (VAE) Loss Function

Stephen Odaibo

arxiv:1907.08956 v1 · 2019-07-21 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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arxiv: 1907.08956 · arxiv_version: 1907.08956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.08956 · pith_short_12: GKDJDK53WMHA · pith_short_16: GKDJDK53WMHA23PN · pith_short_8: GKDJDK53
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  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
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