What The Heck Are VAE-GANs?
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5 min readAug 17, 2018
Yep, you read the title correctly. While a few friends of mine are vegans, none of them knew anything about VAE-GANs. VAE-GAN stands for Variational Autoencoder- Generative Adversarial Network (that is one heck of a name.) Before we get started, I must confess that I am no expert in this subject matter (I don’t have PhD in electrical engineering, just sayin’). But after reading several research papers and watching Ian Goodfellow’s 30-minute long intro to GANs, here is a short (yet concise) summary of my major takeaways:
