| AE | autoencoder |
| VAE | variational autoencoder |
| GAN | generative adversarial network |
| VI | variational inference |
| KL | Kullback–Leibler |
| MGVI | metric Gaussian variational inference |
| MAP | maximum a posteriori |
| ELBO | evidence lower bound |
| CVAE | convolutional variational autoencoder |
| MSE | mean squared error |
| FID | Fréchet inception distance |