STOCHASTIC ENCODERS
Above is the structure of the variational auto-encoder (VAE). The stochastic encoder qf(zjxi),
Also called the inference model, learns stochastic mappings between an observed X-space (input
data) and a latent Z-space (hidden representation). The generative model pq(zjxi), a stochastic
decoder, reconstructs the data given the hidden representation.
VAE is a new continuous stochastic process. We use VAE to learn low dimensional
embeddings of function classes by combining a trainable feature mapping with generative model
using a VAE.