Nov. 25th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Tamir Hazan (webpage). Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Direct Optimization through argmax for Discrete Variational Auto-Encoder Abstract: Reparameterization of variational auto-encoders is an ehttps://sites.google.com/view/biu-learning-clubffective method for reducing the variance of their gradient estimates. However, when the latent variables are discrete, a reparameterization ... Read more