Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerDiederik P. Kingma, Max Welling
Kingma and Welling publish Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes on arXiv
Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes released on arXiv — the VAE and the reparameterization trick
Why it matters
Made it possible to train probabilistic generative models with backpropagation, becoming one pillar of the generative model lineage
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week