Generative models· 2016
Density estimation using Real NVP
On the reading lists
- #488 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #30 in Generative models (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Made expressive invertible generative models practical with exact likelihood and efficient sampling.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2016 (from arXiv 1605.08803)
- Published
- 2017
- Citations
- 4,671 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.347 · computed rank 488 · consensus 0.67, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.417 (2010s · generative-models), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.