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VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]

25 Jan 2026 12 published claims 2 attributable people

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03 / preference

Right? So for example, when we think of how the difference between, like, us and, like like, really, like, amoebas, we we often cite things like planning, counterfactual reasoning, goal oriented behavior.

“Right? So for example, when we think of how the difference between, like, us and, like like, really, like, amoebas, we we often cite things like planning, counterfactual reasoning, goal oriented behavior.”
Speaker
Jeff Beck
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

04 / evaluation

Geometric deep learning is a big part of like is a big part of the stack if for no other reason than when we talk about, like, modeling the physical world. That means, like, incorporating the symmetries that exist in the physical world.

“Geometric deep learning is a big part of like is a big part of the stack if for no other reason than when we talk about, like, modeling the physical world. That means, like, incorporating the symmetries that exist in the physical world.”
Speaker
Jeff Beck
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

08 / preference

In fact, time someone hands me a new neural data set, the first thing I do I'm not ashamed to admit, I run PCA on and pass it through a VAE, and then sort of take a look, right?

“In fact, time someone hands me a new neural data set, the first thing I do I'm not ashamed to admit, I run PCA on and pass it through a VAE, and then sort of take a look, right?”
Speaker
Jeff Beck
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

09 / evaluation

I think the counterfactual thing is an important feature here because we could take something which was conscious or something which had agency, and we could just take a trace of the actual path which was found.

“I think the counterfactual thing is an important feature here because we could take something which was conscious or something which had agency, and we could just take a trace of the actual path which was found.”
Speaker
Tim Scarfe
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

10 / preference

I don't like talking about these dystopian futures because honestly, I think people are too clever, and I think people are too motivated, and people are too interested in how the world really works, and then people are too interested in actually understanding things that they will never stop.

“I don't like talking about these dystopian futures because honestly, I think people are too clever, and I think people are too motivated, and people are too interested in how the world really works, and then people are too interested in actually understanding things that they will never stop.”
Speaker
Jeff Beck
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

12 / evaluation

I like thinking about the distinction between an energy based model and a and a traditional sort of feed forward neural network has to do with where your cost function is applied, right?

“I like thinking about the distinction between an energy based model and a and a traditional sort of feed forward neural network has to do with where your cost function is applied, right?”
Speaker
Jeff Beck
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk
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