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AI based Drug Design using Variational Autoencoder and Weighted Retraining - Preferred Networks Research & Development
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Generating Large Images from Latent Vectors |
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| | [AI summary] This text discusses the development of a system for generating large images from latent vectors, combining Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). It explores the use of Conditional Perceptual Neural Networks (CPPNs) to create images with specific characteristics, such as style and orientation, by manipulating latent vectors. The text also covers the ability to perform arithmetic on latent vectors to generate new images and the potential for creating animations by transitioning between different latent states. The author suggests future research directions, including training on more complex datasets and exploring alternative training objectives beyond Maximum Likelihood.
| | blog.keras.io
Building Autoencoders in Keras
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| | [AI summary] The text discusses various types of autoencoders and their applications. It starts with basic autoencoders, then moves to sparse autoencoders, deep autoencoders, and sequence-to-sequence autoencoders. The text also covers variational autoencoders (VAEs), explaining their structure and training process. It includes code examples for each type of autoencoder and mentions the use of tools like TensorBoard for visualization. The VAE section highlights how to generate new data samples and visualize the latent space. The text concludes with references and a note about the potential for further topics.
| | tiao.io
A Tutorial on Variational Autoencoders with a Concise Keras Implementation | Louis Tiao
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| | An in-depth practical guide to variational encoders from a probabilistic perspective.
| | vxlabs.com
Variational Autoencoder in PyTorch, commented and annotated. - vxlabs
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| I have recently become fascinated with (Variational) Autoencoders and with PyTorch. Kevin Frans has a beautiful blog post online explaining variational autoencoders, with examples in TensorFlow and, importantly, with cat pictures. Jaan Altosaar's blog post takes an even deeper look at VAEs from both the deep learning perspective and the perspective of graphical models. Both of these posts, as well as Diederik Kingma's original 2014 paper Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes, are more than worth your time.