2 papers
stat.ML2024
Generative Models with ELBOs Converging to Entropy Sums
Jan Warnken, Dmytro Velychko, Simon Damm +2
The evidence lower bound (ELBO) is one of the most central objectives for probabilistic unsupervised learning. For the ELBOs of several generative models and model classes, we here…
stat.ML2022
On the Equality of the ELBO to a Sum of Entropies at Stationary Points of Learning
Jörg Lücke, Jan Warnken
The variational lower bound (a.k.a. ELBO or free energy) is the central objective for many established as well as for many novel algorithms for unsupervised learning. Such algorith…