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Variational Autoencoder

Variational autoencoders were introduced in December 2013. This sandbox uses Kingma’s author-published 2014 MNIST weights in a NumPy reconstruction, producing 28 × 28 handwritten digits without retraining.

Original project
Output28 × 28
ModeHandwritten digits · latent sample
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