the se…er to the isotropic Gaussian N(0, I), it promotes disentanglement of the latent generative factors. This is due to the fact that the covariance ∑ of isotropic Gaussian is equal to an identity matrix I meaning all the dimensions are independent. In the ELBO, this is promoted by the second term:
…ccuracy started to worsen. This gave rise to the important research question for many researchers: “how to achieve better disentanglement without losing the reconstruction abilities?” The path towards finding this answer was greatly assisted by the [surgery of ELBO], where the sec…