August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 2m
English
The idea of the reparameterization trick is to take out the random sample node from the backpropagation loop. It achieves this by taking a sample epsilon from a Gaussian distribution and then multiplying this by the result of our standard deviation vector σ and then adding μ. The formula for our latent vector is now this:


The produced latent vectors will be the same as before, but making this change now allows the gradients to flow back through to the encoder part of the VAE. The following diagram shows the VAE ...
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