Yaniv Yacoby

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on\n Downstream Tasks

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models\nthat are widely used for a number of downstream tasks. While it has been\ndemonstrated that VAE training can suffer from a number of pathologies,\nexisting literature lacks characterizations …