Deep Learning: GANs and Variational Autoencoders

Variational autoencoders and GANs have been 2 of the most interesting developments in deep learning and machine learning recently. Yann LeCun, a deep learning pioneer, has said that the most important development in recent years has been adversarial training, referring to GANs. GAN stands for generative adversarial network, where 2 neural networks compete with each other. Unsupervised learning means we're not trying to map input data to targets, we're just trying to learn the structure of that input data. Once we've learned that structure, we can do some pretty cool things.