This isn't't really an issue. But I'd like to draw your attention to a very related work that explores the theoretical foundation of a density estimator (including a VAE) trained on the latent space of a deterministic autoencoder. Check out our publication here -
https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1g7tpEYDS
This isn't't really an issue. But I'd like to draw your attention to a very related work that explores the theoretical foundation of a density estimator (including a VAE) trained on the latent space of a deterministic autoencoder. Check out our publication here - https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1g7tpEYDS