Generative models· 2015
Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows
On the reading lists
- #267 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #14 in Generative models (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established flexible variational distributions through sequences of invertible transformations.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2015 (from arXiv 1505.05770)
- Citations
- 5,182 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Awards
- ICML Test of Time
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Also relevant to
- Machine learning foundations
- Score
- 0.471 · computed rank 267 · consensus 0.55, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.444 (2010s · generative-models), awards 1, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
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