Variational Autoencoders (VAE) for Probabilistic Detection.

Updated May 5, 2026

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Uses reconstruction probability instead of just reconstruction error[cite: 1].

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VAEs learn a probability distribution in the latent space. This allows us to quantify the uncertainty of a data point belonging to the 'normal' distribution[cite: 1].

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