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Random variate representations based on repeated one-to-one transforms of a standard random variable which produce generative models and closed-form densities.

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What are the advantages of normalizing flow over VAEs with deep latent gaussian models for inference?

I am reading the normalizing flow paper and am a bit confused. It seems that being able to model complex (correlated?) posterior is one of the advantages of the proposed approach (Section 2.3, last ...
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