From Variational to Deterministic Autoencoders

Presented by

Partha Ghosh, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, Antonio Vergari, Michael Black, Bernhard Scholkopf

Introduction

This paper presents an alternative framework for generative modeling that is deterministic. They suggest that sampling from a stochastic encoder within a VAE can be interpreted as injecting noise into the input of a deterministic decoder and propose a framework for a regularized deterministic autoencoder (RAE) to generate samples that are comparable or better than those produced by VAE's.