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How does the implementation of the VAE's objective function equate to ELBO?
For a lot of VAE implementations I've seen in code, it's not really obvious to me how it equates to ELBO.
$$L(X)=H(Q)-H(Q:P(X,Z))=\sum_ZQ(Z)logP(Z,X)-\sum_ZQ(Z)log(Q(Z))$$
The above is the definition ...