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    <h1>Variational loss</h1>
    <small class="dont-index">Source: <a href="https://github.com/fdavidcl/ruta/blob/HEAD/R/autoencoder_variational.R" class="external-link"><code>R/autoencoder_variational.R</code></a></small>
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    <p>Specifies an evaluation function adapted to the variational autoencoder. It combines
a base reconstruction error and the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the learned
distribution and the true latent posterior.</p>
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    <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code><span><span class="fu">loss_variational</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">reconstruction_loss</span><span class="op">)</span></span></code></pre></div>
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    <dl><dt>reconstruction_loss</dt>
<dd><p>Another loss to be used as reconstruction error (e.g. "binary_crossentropy")</p></dd>

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<p>A <code>"ruta_loss"</code> object</p>
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<ul><li><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114" class="external-link">Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2016/08/22/under-the-hood-of-the-variational-autoencoder-in.html" class="external-link">Under the Hood of the Variational Autoencoder (in Prose and Code)</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/keras/blob/main/vignettes/examples/variational_autoencoder.R" class="external-link">Keras example: Variational autoencoder</a></p></li>
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    <div class="dont-index"><p><code>\link{autoencoder_variational}</code></p>
<p>Other loss functions: 
<code><a href="contraction.html">contraction</a>()</code>,
<code><a href="correntropy.html">correntropy</a>()</code></p></div>
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