Adversarial Variational Auto-Encoders (AVAEs)

run: python main_mnist.py

 python main_face.py

Visualization

• Reconstructions:

- 2d latent space

- Generations from positions

- Visualizatin code from: https://jmetzen.github.io/2015-11-27/vae.html

Reference

• Kingma, Diederik P., and Max Welling. "Auto-encoding variational bayes." arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6114 (2013).
• Jan Hendrik Metzen's blog post: "Variational Autoencoder in TensorFlow"
• Makhzani, Alireza, Jonathon Shlens, Navdeep Jaitly, Ian Goodfellow, and Brendan Frey. "Adversarial autoencoders." arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05644 (2015).
• Ju, Jianbo Chen Billy Fang Cheng. "When Variational Auto-encoders meet Generative Adversarial Networks." (2016).