What is Vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE)?

Vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE)

Vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE): A VAE variant that maps data to a fixed set of discrete codes, useful for compressing images and audio into tokens.

Related terms

Variational autoencoder (VAE)
Autoencoder
Sparse autoencoder (SAE)
Sparse vector search
Support vector machine (SVM)
Vector database
Vector index
Bloch vector

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