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For questions related to Bayesian inference in the context of artificial intelligence.

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Why optimise log p(x) rather than log p(x|z) in a Variational AutoEncoder?

I thought $p(x)$ was just the distribution of $x$, which are the input variables we have observed. So how can we maximize $p(x)$, if it is the actual distribution of data in the real world? I think …
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