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Why is the variational auto-encoder's output blurred, while GANs output is crisp and has sharp edges?

I observed in several papers that the variational autoencoder's output is blurred, while GANs output is crisp and has sharp edges. Can someone please give some intuition why that is the case? I did ...
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Why doesn't VAE suffer mode collapse?

Mode collapse is a common problem faced by GANs. I am curious why doesn't VAE suffer mode collapse?
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