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2026-08-22
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Generative Models
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10 min read
VAEs from Scratch — Stir Probability into "Compress and Restore" and You Get a Generator
An autoencoder that only compresses and restores cannot invent anything new. This walks through why a single drop of probability turns it into a generative model — ELBO, the reparameterization trick, and walking the latent space — assuming no prior knowledge.