Generating Synthetic Data Paper
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# Generating Synthetic Data Paper
I took like 6hrs to crack this paper, reading it off and on. Since the authors were mainly interested in generating patient data, the encoding of the data into a good latent space was treated as a given. I initially thought I had cracked it, thinking that they simply threw a concatenated set of time blocks and their features into a normal VAE. fakedata-DJMSSG8H
Nay, upon looking into its code, I find LSTMs inside the VAEs. The supplementary info explains that they were just basing their idea on the 2015 paper called DRAW.