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5. Charlie Snell on DALL-E and CLIP

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Code Book Vectors and a Vector Quantizing Hack

The DVA is like another discrete auto encoder thing but it's a little bit different than the VQVA. The hack is what's called the gumbell softmax which is sort of a trick for approximating a discrete distribution with a continuous distribution because the problem is you can't really differentiate through sampling from a discrete distribution so they try to approximate it. And yeah if I my end would be dead so now you have like a probability distribution over your code book vector. So sounds a bit hacky but I trusted the networks.

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