Dec 6, 2025 · 8 min read · Table of Contents Introduction A Quick Refresher on Bayesian Inference The Variational Inference Idea KL Divergence and the ELBO Where ELBO Shows Up in Practice Why Standard Variational Inference Fails with Outliers Robust Divergences: β and γ...
Join discussionJun 5, 2025 · 17 min read · Remember when we chatted about how AI models like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) learn to create? Well, there's another class of AI magicians : Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Diffusion Models, that achieve incredible feats of generation ...
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