Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models by Danilo Jimenez Rezende and others (source code)

= Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models by Danilo Jimenez Rezende and others
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https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/rezende14.html

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/rezende14.pdf

Primary ICML2014 paper by <Danilo Jimenez Rezende>, <Shakir Mohamed> and <Daan Wierstra>, PMLR32(2), 1278–1286. Section3.2, equation(10), gives the Gaussian location-scale transformation and its pathwise gradient; sections2 and4 describe generative and recognition models.