Variational Autoencoder (VAE) - The Learning Machine
the-learning-machine.com › article › dlVariational autoencoder. Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are generative models, with latent variables, much like Gaussian mixture models (GMMs).The encoder in a VAE arrives at the latent variables that may have generated the observed data point, and the decoder attempts to draw a sample that is approximately same as the input sample from the latent variables inferred by the encoder.