Question about the loss

[DavisonHu]

Hello,I read the paper "Synthesizing 3D Shapes via Modeling Multi-view Depth Maps and Silhouettes with Deep Generative Networks",the loss function which mention inside is to minimize : loss = -DKL(q(Z|X)||p(Z)) + E[logp(x|Z)]
but the loss function in VAE is :
loss = DKL(q(Z|X)||p(Z)) - E[logp(x|Z)]
I am confused about it, I hope you can give me some advice,thank you

[Amir-Arsalan]

They are essentially the same. You always optimize the parameters by going in the negative direction of the gradients, hence we put the negative sign there.

[Amir-Arsalan]

@DaviosnHu This will clarify things for you.