Neural reconstruction losses in VAEs reduce latent information content and produce more isotropic latent geometries with even uncertainty distribution.
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In: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2022, Waikoloa, HI, USA, January 3-8, 2022
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