Reparameterization Trick

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technique used in stochastic gradient variational inference

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Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)

Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)

Lex Fridman

A key innovation that allows gradients to be computed through stochastic layers in VAEs by expressing the sampling process deterministically using an auxiliary variable, effectively separating the stochastic and deterministic parts.