The latent space of any collection of objects is essentially the behind-the-scenes set of control knobs that you could adjust to create any given object in the collection. For example, consider all of the chairs in the world.<\/p>\n
You might imagine a magic chair factory with a showroom containing a single generic chair, and a control panel that contains hundreds of knobs. You can’t manufacture your dream chair, but you can pick up a pencil and make a sketch of it.<\/p>\n
When you enter the factory, the factory operator looks at your sketch and starts turning various knobs right or left. Every time a knob is adjusted, the shape of the chair changes.<\/p>\n
If the factory operator is really good, after a while the chair in the showroom starts to look a lot like the chair in your sketch. When the process is complete, that generic chair has turned into your dream chair.<\/p>\n
Basically, the knobs in that control panel represent the latent space of all possible chairs. And any particular chair corresponds to a particular setting of those knobs.<\/p>\n
More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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