Pixelvae: A latent variable model for natural images

5th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2017 - Conference Track Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Gulrajani, Ishaan ^a   Kumar, Kundan ^a,b   Ahmed, Faruk ^a   Taiga, Adrien Ali ^a,c   Visin, Francesco ^a,e   Vazquez, David ^a,d   Courville, Aaron ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c CENTRALESUPÉLEC   (France)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^f CIFAR ^*

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL STRUCTURE; LARGE STRUCTURES; LATENT VARIABLE; LATENT VARIABLE MODELING; NATURAL IMAGES; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85071180107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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