/VCD

Variational Contrastive Divergence

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VCD

Implementation of Variational Contrastive Divergence (https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04062) in Python3. Mostly a translation of the author's Matlab code (https://github.com/franrruiz/vcd_divergence)

Thoughts on VCD

A simple yet very elegant formulation of triangle law with KL divergences. Brings together score function estimators, reparametrization trick, MCMC...

[in progress]