Variational Autoencoder Code and Experiments
Detailed walkthrough of a PyTorch VAE implementation trained on MNIST, including visualizations of data generation, reconstruction, and anomaly detection
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Latent Variable Models, Expectation Maximization, and Variational Inference
Introduction to latent variable models, derivation of the ELBO, and the relationship with Expectation Maximization
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Intuitive introduction to KL divergence, including discussion on its asymmetry
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Code-based walkthrough showing how AUC is computed for a simple model trained on a simple dataset