r/deeplearning - In Variational Autoencoders, does the generative model generates samples from latent variables which are sampled from a multivariate distribution? If yes, then is this similar in case of GANs?

May-10-2020, 10:54:18 GMT–#artificialintelligence 

In VAE, samples are generated from the latents variables (mean and variance) during training only. Afterwards the encoder and latent are not used anymore and the generation is done by using a random variable as input for the decoder.