Semi-amortized VAE

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Hi,

any pointers on how to implement semi-amortized VAE (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.02550.pdf) in pyro?

thanks

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If you use a pyro.optim.MultiOptimizer you can differentiate through parameter updates as described in the paper; the rest of the algorithm seems like pretty straightforward application of existing Pyro machinery. See the custom SVI objectives tutorial for more details.

If you can ask a more specific question with code we can probably be more helpful.