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1980phipsi on Oct 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

So it's like converting a normal distribution to log normal (and then back). But a more general way of thinking about it.

Where does the name "normalizing flows" come from?

hotstickyballs on Oct 17, 2024 [–]

It comes from the Jacobian which you can get from auto diff. It measures how much distortion the function created and normalizes it so that you can integrate correctly without blowing up gradients

theGnuMe on Oct 17, 2024 | [–]

I mean the whole thing sounds like a deep neural network…

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