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Improving Variational Auto-Encoders using convex combination linear Inverse Autoregressive Flow

7 Jun 2017arXiv:1706.02326archive 2025-07-28

Jakub M. Tomczak, Max Welling

In this paper, we propose a new volume-preserving flow and show that it performs similarly to the linear general normalizing flow. The idea is to enrich a linear Inverse Autoregressive Flow by introducing multiple lower-triangular matrices with ones on the diagonal and combining them using a convex combination. In the experimental studies on MNIST and Histopathology data we show that the proposed approach outperforms other volume-preserving flows and is competitive with current state-of-the-art linear normalizing flow.

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