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The Importance of VE's in Auto Encoding
Ajis: Some people who were just learning about VE's said, you know, why can't we just consider a VE as an auto encoder with a KL divergence regularizer? And now I kind of want to say like go to Ajis thesis, because here it's clear that you had this really familiarity with this elbow. That allows you to think, okay, like, how do we improve upon this? Or how do we use this in a different setting? Yes,. my whole, all the work that I did during my PhD came from that perspective of statistics and PGM and, and trying to formalize things a little bit more. But your students are actually