Course Study Note
Day 3 — Variational Autoencoders
I studied why the encoder predicts a mean and variance, then connected reparameterization to reconstruction and KL losses.
- Date
- 2025-07-09
- Course
- 2025 Generative Models Intensive — From VAE to Stable Diffusion
01VAE Architecture and ELBO
Study checkpoint for this day
02Reparameterization Trick
Study checkpoint for this day
Topics from the day
- VAE Architecture and ELBO
I diagrammed how a VAE learns a latent distribution rather than a single code.
- Reparameterization Trick
I checked how sampling is rewritten so gradients can pass through the computation.