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To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first empirically successful lossy variant of the 30-year-old bitsback25 algorithm. We will add the below curves to Figure 2 of the paper.37 Indeed, SGAdoesnotstrictly51 require ahierarchical VAE, but hierarchical VAEs haveproved to lead to superior compression performance in the52 literature.