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arXiv Machine Learning By Qi Chen, Jierui Zhu, Florian Shkurti

Generalization in VAE and Diffusion Models: A Unified Information-Theoretic Analysis

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arXiv:2506. 00849v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the empirical success of Diffusion Models (DMs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), their generalization performance remains theoretically underexplored, especially lacking a full consideration of the shared encoder-generator structure.

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