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I know that the notation N(μ,σ) stands for a normal distribution. But I'm reading the book "An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders" and in it, there is this notation:
N(z;0,I) What does it mean?
I know that the notation N(μ,σ) stands for a normal distribution. But I'm reading the book "An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders" and in it, there is this notation:
N(z;0,I) What does it mean?
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Answered on May 19, 2022
Z=x-mu/sigma means that z has a (multivariate) normal distribution with 0 mean and identity covariance matrix. This essentially means each individual element of the vector z has a standard normal distribution.
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