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Causal Atlases from Entropic Inference: Bayesian Networks beyond Optimal DAGs
Hazhir Aliahmadi, Irina Babayan, Greg van Anders
Data-driven causal relationship identification is pertinent to advancing understanding of complex systems both within and beyond science. Bayesian networks offer a probabilistic me…
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Entropic Auto-Encoding via Implicit Free-Energy Minimization
Hazhir Aliahmadi, Irina Babayan, Greg van Anders
Despite their ubiquity, variational autoencoders (VAEs) inherently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which latent variables are effectively ignored. This failure ar…