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BIVA: A Very Deep Hierarchy of Latent Variables for Generative Modelling

Corti
2/6/2019
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BIVA: A Very Deep Hierarchy of Latent Variables for Generative Modelling

We introduce the Bidirectional-Inference Variational Autoencoder (BIVA), characterized by a skip-connected generative model and an inference network formed by a bidirectional stochastic inference path. We show that BIVA reaches state-of-the-art test likelihoods, generates sharp and coherent natural images, and uses the hierarchy of latent variables to capture different aspects of the data distribution.