Challenging the Semi-Supervised VAE Framework for Text ...
aclanthology.org › 20212.2 Semi-Supervised VAEs The idea of using the VAE encoder as a classi-fier for semi-supervised learning has first been ex-plored in (Kingma et al.,2014). Besides the usual unobserved latent variable z, the semi-supervised VAE framework also uses a partially-observed la-tent variable y. The encoder q ˚(yjx) serves both as the inference ...