Hands-On Deep Learning with Go

Assessing the results

You'll notice that the results of our VAE model are a fair bit fuzzier than our standard autoencoder:

In some cases, it also appears to be undecided between several different digits, like in the following example, where it appears to be getting close to decoding to a 7 instead of a 9:

This is because we have specifically enforced the distributions to be close to each other. If we were to try to visualize this on a two-dimensional plot, it would look a little bit like the following:

You can see from this last example that ...