Combining the mean and log-variance in this way is called the reparameterization trick. The discovery of this idea in the original 2013 research paper ("Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes" by D.P. Kingma ...

Next, Dear-DIA uses a variational autoencoder to extract the peak features of fragment ions and maps the features into Euclidean space, and then clusters the features, with different classes of ...