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jmalickitoday at 3:27 AM1 replyview on HN

They do!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18777

But that doesn't mean a frequentist views a VAE as a generative model!

Putting it another way, Gaussian processes originated as a frequentist technique! But to a frequentist they are not generative.


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hawtadstoday at 3:30 AM

Ooh good find, thanks for the link. This will be my bedtime reading for this week :)