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Which part is encoder ,and which part is decoder?

Open Gpwner opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

In your paper,which is part belong to encoder, and which part belong to decoder?

Is the final 'squeeze + step of flow ' the decoder of Glow?

Any help will be appreciate!

Gpwner avatar Jan 18 '21 11:01 Gpwner

Hi Gpwner, Flows do not follow the encoder decoder architecture you see in VAEs. You only have a prior, typically a gaussian, which then gets transformed into your complex distribution. If you must, I guess you can see the entire flow as a both the encoder (in the normalizing direction) and the decoder (generative direction) since it is invertible. There are some great recent Youtube vids on this

cviviers avatar Mar 14 '21 00:03 cviviers