Variational Autoencoder
Software / App
A type of generative model in machine learning that can be used to think about the future conditioned upon different courses of action, relevant to planning and consciousness.
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Videos Mentioning Variational Autoencoder
Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle | Lex Fridman Podcast #99
Lex Fridman
A type of generative model in machine learning that can be used to think about the future conditioned upon different courses of action, relevant to planning and consciousness.
Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)
Lex Fridman
A specific type of Helmholtz machine that defines a generative process through cascades of stochastic layers, capable of modeling complex nonlinear relationships.
Stanford CS25: Transformers United V6 I From Representation Learning to World Modeling
Stanford Online
Mentioned as a method that could be used for optimizing distributions to be Gaussian, but not preferred for C-Reg due to generative model usage.