Autocoders are a family of neural network models aiming to learn compressed latent variables of high-dimensional data. Starting from the basic autocoder mode...
```iii) However, if you were to use your same Gaussian decoder to model data that is itself Gaussian, you'd find that the VAE learns to ignore the latent code!```
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