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PublishedJuly 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A Simplex Witness Certificate and Escape Force for Constant Collapse in Variational Autoencoders
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arXiv:2605.18224v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study exact constant collapse in variational autoencoders: the deterministic encoder mean becomes independent of the input. The prior remains the standard Gaussian. Before VAE training, we select a fixed teacher posterior from a GMM-based
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