Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better. A Research Report on Implementation, Ablation Study, and Extensions

Amine M'Charrak, Vít Růžička, Sangyun Shin +1

This report explains, implements and extends the works presented in "Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better" (T Rainforth et al., 2018). We provide theoretical and e…