Reproducing and exploring fundamental building blocks for the recent neural net approaches to image encoding and generation.
Roadmap:

• Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes. Kingma et al. 2014.
• Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks. Radford et al. 2016.
• Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics. Sohl-Dickstein et al. 2015. (Future)