http://bjlkeng.github.io/enTue, 10 Mar 2026 20:54:58 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/semi-supervised-learning-with-variational-autoencoders/Brian Keng<div><p>In this post, I'll be continuing on this variational autoencoder (VAE) line of exploration (previous posts: <a class="reference external" href="http://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/variational-autoencoders/">here</a> and <a class="reference external" href="http://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/a-variational-autoencoder-on-the-svnh-dataset/">here</a>) by writing about how to use variational autoencoders to do semi-supervised learning. In particular, I'll be explaining the technique used in "Semi-supervised Learning with Deep Generative Models" by Kingma et al. I'll be digging into the math (hopefully being more explicit than the paper), giving a bit more background on the variational lower bound, as well as my usual attempt at giving some more intuition. I've also put some notebooks on Github that compare the VAE methods with others such as PCA, CNNs, and pre-trained models. Enjoy!</p> <p><a href="http://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/semi-supervised-learning-with-variational-autoencoders/">Read more…</a> (25 min remaining to read)</p></div>autoencodersCIFAR10CNNgenerative modelsinceptionKullback-LeiblermathjaxPCAsemi-supervised learningvariational calculushttp://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/semi-supervised-learning-with-variational-autoencoders/Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:40:47 GMT