Thumbnail for YouTube video: Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)
VAEs use pixel‑wise ELBO, yielding blurry outputs, while GANs’ adversarial loss produces sharper images. The talk highlights this trade‑off and suggests hybrid VAE‑GAN designs to combine probabilistic rigor with perceptual quality. https://youtu.be/rK6bchqeaN8 #GANs #VAEs