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Improved Gradient-Based Optimization Over Discrete Distributions
Evgeny Andriyash, Arash Vahdat, Bill Macready
In many applications we seek to maximize an expectation with respect to a distribution over discrete variables. Estimating gradients of such objectives with respect to the distribu…
stat.ML2018★ 29 cited
DVAE#: Discrete Variational Autoencoders with Relaxed Boltzmann Priors
Arash Vahdat, Evgeny Andriyash, William G. Macready
Boltzmann machines are powerful distributions that have been shown to be an effective prior over binary latent variables in variational autoencoders (VAEs). However, previous metho…