{
  "id": 97883,
  "title": "Generative models",
  "url": "/competitions/generative-dog-images/discussion/97883",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-06-29T12:23:35.120574200Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>Hello! In this competition, we need to generate images of dogs, and the rules say that we need to use GANs. But why not use other generative models such as VAE?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "564436",
      "postDate": "06/29/2019 12:23:35",
      "content": "<p>Hello! In this competition, we need to generate images of dogs, and the rules say that we need to use GANs. But why not use other generative models such as VAE?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello! In this competition, we need to generate images of dogs, and the rules say that we need to use GANs. But why not use other generative models such as VAE?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "564452",
      "postDate": "06/29/2019 12:48:36",
      "content": "<p>Great question! I think most of the people is using GANs because kaggle members talked about it (read the competition description) and the baseline was a GAN. But, the say we have to use generative methods:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Important Warning: This competition has an experimental format and submission style (images as submission). Competitors <strong>must use generative methods</strong> to create their submission images ...</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>So, unless they are looking for a GAN model, I think it would be great to use different generative methods.\nI'd definitely like to see a kernel using VAE ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Great question! I think most of the people is using GANs because kaggle members talked about it (read the competition description) and the baseline was a GAN. But, the say we have to use generative methods:\n\n&gt; Important Warning: This competition has an experimental format and submission style (images as submission). Competitors **must use generative methods** to create their submission images ...\n\nSo, unless they are looking for a GAN model, I think it would be great to use different generative methods.\nI'd definitely like to see a kernel using VAE ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "566183",
      "postDate": "07/01/2019 21:54:51",
      "content": "<p>Please feel free to use VAEs. \n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/generative-dog-images/discussion/98183\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/generative-dog-images/discussion/98183</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Please feel free to use VAEs. \nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/generative-dog-images/discussion/98183",
      "votes": null
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 564452,
      "author_name": "jesucristo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/29/2019 12:48:36",
      "content": "<p>Great question! I think most of the people is using GANs because kaggle members talked about it (read the competition description) and the baseline was a GAN. But, the say we have to use generative methods:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Important Warning: This competition has an experimental format and submission style (images as submission). Competitors <strong>must use generative methods</strong> to create their submission images ...</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>So, unless they are looking for a GAN model, I think it would be great to use different generative methods.\nI'd definitely like to see a kernel using VAE ;)</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 566183,
      "author_name": "wendykan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/01/2019 21:54:51",
      "content": "<p>Please feel free to use VAEs. \n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/generative-dog-images/discussion/98183\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/generative-dog-images/discussion/98183</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "564436": "Hello! In this competition, we need to generate images of dogs, and the rules say that we need to use GANs. But why not use other generative models such as VAE?",
    "564452": "Great question! I think most of the people is using GANs because kaggle members talked about it (read the competition description) and the baseline was a GAN. But, the say we have to use generative methods:\n\n&gt; Important Warning: This competition has an experimental format and submission style (images as submission). Competitors **must use generative methods** to create their submission images ...\n\nSo, unless they are looking for a GAN model, I think it would be great to use different generative methods.\nI'd definitely like to see a kernel using VAE ;)",
    "566183": "Please feel free to use VAEs. \nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/generative-dog-images/discussion/98183"
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