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Variational & Flow Models

The ELBO, reparameterisation, normalising flows, flow matching and rectified transport.

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64flashcards
37minutes of reading
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  1. 01 The Reparameterisation Trick Why you cannot backpropagate through a sampling operation, how moving the randomness to an input fixes it, and the variance argument that explains why this beats the score-function estimator. intermediate 7m 12 cards