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For questions related to variational auto-encoders (VAEs). The first VAE was proposed in "Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes" (2013) by Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling. There are several other VAEs, for example, the conditional VAE.
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What's going on in the equation of the variational lower bound?
I don't really understand what this equation is saying or what the purpose of the ELBO is. How does it help us find the true posterior distribution?
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How does the Kullback-Leibler divergence give "knowledge gained"?
I'm reading about the KL divergence on Wikipedia. I don't understand how the equation gives "information gained" as it says in the "Interpretations" section
Expressed in the language of Bayesian infe …