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.
Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows by Danilo Jimenez Rezende and Shakir Mohamed 2026-11-05
Primary PDF: proceedings.mlr.press/v37/rezende15.pdf . PMLR37,1530–1538(2015). The PDF title page gives Danilo Jimenez Rezende and Shakir Mohamed; the publisher HTML shortens the first byline to Danilo Rezende. Section3, equations5–7, gives invertible density transformations and composition; only these primary bylines and mathematical constructions are cited.