Variational Autoencoder (VAE)

A deep dive into variational autoencoders: the ELBO and its derivation, the reparameterization trick, CVAE — and the discrete-latent line of work (VQ-VAE, VQ-VAE-2, DALL-E) that grew out of it. With self-check questions and a hands-on notebook.

July 24, 2026 · 62 min · Eugenia Elistratova