Variational Autoencoders Diffusion Models

Tools and implementations of VAEs and related latent-space generative models (WAEs, etc.) for image generation. Does NOT include GANs, diffusion models, or other non-autoencoder generative architectures.

There are 25 variational autoencoders models tracked. The highest-rated is jxhe/vae-lagging-encoder at 39/100 with 186 stars.

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#	Model	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	jxhe/vae-lagging-encoder PyTorch implementation of "Lagging Inference Networks and Posterior Collapse...	39	Emerging	186	Python
2	chaitanya100100/VAE-for-Image-Generation Implemented Variational Autoencoder generative model in Keras for image...	39	Emerging	122	Python
3	taldatech/soft-intro-vae-pytorch [CVPR 2021 Oral] Official PyTorch implementation of Soft-IntroVAE from the...	37	Emerging	198	Jupyter Notebook
4	lavinal712/AutoencoderKL Train Your VAE: A VAE Training and Finetuning Script for SD/FLUX	36	Emerging	76	Python
5	Rayhane-mamah/Efficient-VDVAE Official Pytorch and JAX implementation of "Efficient-VDVAE: Less is more"	36	Emerging	199	Python
6	zelaki/eqvae [ICML'25] EQ-VAE: Equivariance Regularized Latent Space for Improved...	32	Emerging	174	Python
7	Natsu6767/Generating-Devanagari-Using-DRAW PyTorch implementation of DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network For Image...	27	Experimental	88	Python
8	snowkylin/rnn-vae Variational Autoencoder with Recurrent Neural Network based on Google...	26	Experimental	39	Python
9	crypto-code/Variational-Autoencoder Use a VAE to generate all new pokemons	24	Experimental	3	Python
10	FoundationVision/BitVAE official training and inference code of bitwise tokenizer	24	Experimental	70	Python
11	Westlake-AI/VQGAN VQ-GAN for Various Data Modality based on Taming Transformers for...	23	Experimental	28	Python
12	ZENGXH/NPDRAW NP DRAW paper released code	23	Experimental	20	Python
13	volotat/Continuous-Image-Autoencoder Deep learning image autoencoder that not depends on image resolution	23	Experimental	20	Python
14	LylianChallier/VAEs Streamlit app to explore VAEs	22	Experimental	—	Python
15	ivyyagami/pytorch-beta-vae-fashion-mnist 🧵 Learn disentangled representations and generate images using a β-VAE on...	22	Experimental	—	Python
16	Ankita-Bha/vae-multidomain-image-generation Variational Autoencoder–based image generation project exploring latent...	22	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
17	Hawary00/VAE-MNIST PyTorch implementation of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) trained on MNIST...	21	Experimental	2	Python
18	MKJia/MGVQ [Arxiv'25] MGVQ: Could VQ-VAE Beat VAE? A Generalizable Tokenizer with...	20	Experimental	55	Python
19	kurtarmamento/pytorch-generative-models PyTorch Generative model for generating clothing from Fashion MNIST with...	19	Experimental	—	Python
20	manhph2211/ML-Pipeline This repo shows how to implement a simple image generation app that uses...	14	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
21	SAGNIKMJR/MetaQNN_ImageGenerationVCAE_PyTorch Implementation of MetaQNN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02167,...	12	Experimental	3	Python
22	mgp123/nvae An implementation of NVAE in pytorch	12	Experimental	3	Python
23	theSohamTUmbare/Variational-AutoEncoder Implemented the Variational AutoEnoder and Decoder	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
24	m0baxter/catGenerator A variational autoencoder that generates images of cats	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
25	RealMlops/Image-Generation This repo shows how to implement a simple image generation app that uses...	10	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook