Reading Assignment 5: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)

• Variational Autoencoders Explained - an easy intro to VAEs, but not very deep and lacking the probabilistic view
• Tutorial - What is a variational autoencoder? - VAEs from two sides: the deep learning perspective and the probabilistic model perspective
• Chapter 20.10.3 on Variational Autoencoders - to draw connections from VAEs to other models and to follow the book’s narrative

Additional resource:

• Tutorial on Variational Autoencoders - atutorial on VAEs, more explanatory/more text