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# VQVAE2 in Pytorch
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[VQVAE2](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.00446.pdf) is a generative autoencoder developed by Deepmind. It's unique innovation is
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discretizing the latent space into a fixed set of "codebook" vectors. This codebook
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can then be used in downstream tasks to rebuild images from the training set.
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This model is in DLAS thanks to work [@rosinality](https://github.com/rosinality) did
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[converting the Deepmind model](https://github.com/rosinality/vq-vae-2-pytorch) to Pytorch.
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# Training VQVAE2
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VQVAE2 is trained in two steps:
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## Training the autoencoder
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This first step is to train the autoencoder itself. The config file `train_imgnet_vqvae_stage1.yml` provided shows how to do this
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for imagenet with the hyperparameters specified by deepmind. You'll need to bring your own imagenet folder for this.
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## Training the PixelCNN encoder
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The second step is to train the PixelCNN model which will create "codebook" vectors given an
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input image. |