Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST

Closed weights University of California (UC) Berkeley,OpenAI March 2017

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The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

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Origin

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Organisation
University of California (UC) Berkeley,OpenAI
Organisation type
Academia,Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
4 March 2017
Authors
Xi Chen, Diederik P. Kingma, Tim Salimans, Yan Duan, Prafulla Dhariwal, John Schulman, Ilya Sutskever, Pieter Abbeel

What it does

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Domain
Vision
Task
Image representation

Size

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Training data
tokens

Availability

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Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

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Reference
Variational Lossy Autoencoder
Last updated
11 February 2026

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About this model

Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST was published by University of California (UC) Berkeley,OpenAI, in United States of America, in March 2017. It comes out of academia,Industry.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing image representation.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST — common questions

01

What is Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST used for?

Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST works in Vision, and is recorded as handling image representation. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

02

What GPU do I need to run Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST?

None. Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

03

Is Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST open source?

No. Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

How many parameters does Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST have?

No parameter count has been published for Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

05

Who created Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST?

Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST was published by University of California (UC) Berkeley,OpenAI, based in United States of America, categorised as academia,Industry.

06

When was Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST released?

Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE) MNIST was published in March 2017. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 11 February 2026

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