Variational Autoencoder Implementations ML Frameworks

Implementations and tutorials of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and their variants (CVAEs, VQ-VAEs, KAN-AEs) for generative modeling. Does NOT include standard autoencoders for denoising/compression tasks or other generative models like diffusion/GANs.

There are 87 variational autoencoder implementations frameworks tracked. 8 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is Naresh1318/Adversarial_Autoencoder at 60/100 with 433 stars.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	Naresh1318/Adversarial_Autoencoder A wizard's guide to Adversarial Autoencoders	60	Established	433	Python
2	mseitzer/pytorch-fid Compute FID scores with PyTorch.	57	Established	3,833	Python
3	acids-ircam/RAVE Official implementation of the RAVE model: a Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder	57	Established	1,698	Python
4	ratschlab/aestetik AESTETIK: Convolutional autoencoder for learning spot representations from...	56	Established	20	Python
5	jaanli/variational-autoencoder Variational autoencoder implemented in tensorflow and pytorch (including...	51	Established	1,183	Python
6	ethanluoyc/pytorch-vae A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) implemented in PyTorch	50	Established	432	Python
7	nathanhubens/Autoencoders Implementation of simple autoencoders networks with Keras	50	Established	264	Jupyter Notebook
8	YannDubs/disentangling-vae Experiments for understanding disentanglement in VAE latent representations	50	Established	841	Python
9	AntixK/PyTorch-VAE A Collection of Variational Autoencoders (VAE) in PyTorch.	49	Emerging	7,605	Python
10	greenelab/tybalt Training and evaluating a variational autoencoder for pan-cancer gene expression data	49	Emerging	174	HTML
11	zalandoresearch/pytorch-vq-vae PyTorch implementation of VQ-VAE by Aäron van den Oord et al.	48	Emerging	602	Jupyter Notebook
12	nadavbh12/VQ-VAE Minimalist implementation of VQ-VAE in Pytorch	47	Emerging	559	Python
13	Kaixhin/Autoencoders Torch implementations of various types of autoencoders	47	Emerging	476	Lua
14	stormraiser/GAN-weight-norm Code for "On the Effects of Batch and Weight Normalization in Generative...	47	Emerging	181	Lua
15	msmbuilder/vde Variational Autoencoder for Dimensionality Reduction of Time-Series	47	Emerging	190	Jupyter Notebook
16	nicola-decao/s-vae-pytorch Pytorch implementation of Hyperspherical Variational Auto-Encoders	46	Emerging	386	Python
17	Nemzy/video_generator This is implementation of convolutional variational autoencoder in...	46	Emerging	73	Jupyter Notebook
18	samsinai/VAE_protein_function Protein function prediction using a variational autoencoder	45	Emerging	93	Jupyter Notebook
19	timbmg/VAE-CVAE-MNIST Variational Autoencoder and Conditional Variational Autoencoder on MNIST in PyTorch	43	Emerging	658	Python
20	archinetai/cqt-pytorch An invertible and differentiable implementation of the Constant-Q Transform (CQT).	42	Emerging	72	Python
21	sony/sqvae Pytorch implementation of stochastically quantized variational autoencoder (SQ-VAE)	42	Emerging	193	Python
22	bramtoula/vdna Pytorch implementation of Visual DNA, an approach to represent and compare images.	42	Emerging	40	Python
23	ZephirFXEC/VQVDB OpenVDB Fog Volume Compression using VQ-VAE Neural Network	41	Emerging	92	C++
24	ritheshkumar95/pytorch-vqvae Vector Quantized VAEs - PyTorch Implementation	41	Emerging	949	Python
25	mikelkou/fava Functional Associations using Variational Autoencoders	41	Emerging	43	Jupyter Notebook
26	petrobras/WPRAutoencoders This is one of Petrobras' open repositories on GitHub. It contains the...	40	Emerging	45	Jupyter Notebook
27	Kaixhin/nninit Weight initialisation schemes for Torch7 neural network modules	40	Emerging	100	Lua
28	csinva/gan-vae-pretrained-pytorch Pretrained GANs + VAEs + classifiers for MNIST/CIFAR in pytorch.	40	Emerging	207	Jupyter Notebook
29	nnormandin/Conditional_VAE conditional variational autoencoder written in Keras [not actively maintained]	39	Emerging	97	Jupyter Notebook
30	zhanghang1989/Torch-Encoding-Layer Deep Texture Encoding Network	37	Emerging	92	Lua
31	niazangels/vae-pokedex The companion code for How to Autoencode your Pokemon	36	Emerging	80	Jupyter Notebook
32	loeweX/ComplexAutoEncoder Code for the paper: Complex-Valued Autoencoders for Object Discovery	36	Emerging	59	Python
33	ggbioing/mcvae Multi-Channel Variational Auto Encoder: A Bayesian Deep Learning Framework...	36	Emerging	31	Python
34	microsoft/BindVAE Variational Auto Encoders for learning binding signatures of transcription factors	36	Emerging	14	Python
35	s-omranpour/X-VAE-keras simple implementations of different kinds of VAE in tf.keras	35	Emerging	12	Jupyter Notebook
36	despoisj/ConvolutionalAutoencoder Quick and dirty example of the application of convolutional autoencoders in...	35	Emerging	53	Python
37	rese1f/Awesome-VQVAE A collection of resources and papers on Vector Quantized Variational...	35	Emerging	331	—
38	matthewvowels1/Awesome-VAEs A curated list of awesome work on VAEs, disentanglement, representation...	35	Emerging	842	—
39	xuanlinli17/autoregressive_inference Code for "Discovering Non-monotonic Autoregressive Orderings with...	35	Emerging	12	Python
40	gd-vae/gd-vae Geometric Dynamic Variational Autoencoders (GD-VAEs) for learning embedding...	35	Emerging	37	TeX
41	ttgump/spaVAE Dependency-aware deep generative models for multitasking analysis of spatial...	34	Emerging	43	Jupyter Notebook
42	SerezD/vqvae-vqgan-pytorch-lightning VQ-VAE/GAN implementation in pytorch-lightning	34	Emerging	49	Python
43	yukara-ikemiya/minimal-sqvae A minimal Pytorch Implementation of Stochastically Quantized Variational...	34	Emerging	34	Python
44	julian-8897/conv-vae-pytorch Convolutional Variational Autoencoder in Pytorch benchmarked on CelebA Dataset	33	Emerging	20	Jupyter Notebook
45	xuxu-wei/SUAVE Implementation of a Hybrid Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for label...	33	Emerging	47	Python
46	1Konny/VQ-VAE Pytorch Implementation of "Neural Discrete Representation Learning"	32	Emerging	92	Jupyter Notebook
47	TheEngineerProgrammer/my_masters_thesis cVAE, VQ-VAE, VQ-VAE2, cVAE-cGAN, PixelCNN and Gated PixelCNN in tensorflow...	32	Emerging	4	Jupyter Notebook
48	cheind/autoregressive :kiwi_fruit: Autoregressive Models in PyTorch.	32	Emerging	81	Python
49	duanzhiihao/qres-vae Authors' PyTorch implementation of "Lossy Image Compression with Quantized...	31	Emerging	16	Jupyter Notebook
50	dhanushkamath/VariationalAutoencoder An IPython notebook explaining the concepts of Variational Autoencoders and...	31	Emerging	21	Jupyter Notebook
51	MikolajSzawerda/music-sae Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) for unsupervised music representation learning.	29	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
52	mdhabibi/DeepLearning-VAE Exploring the depths of generative learning with a $\beta$-Variational...	29	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
53	SekiroRong/KAN-AutoEncoder KAE : KAN-based AutoEncoder (AE, VAE, VQ-VAE, RVQ, etc.)	29	Experimental	39	Jupyter Notebook
54	codeperfectplus/autoEncoders Deep convolutional autoencoder for image denoising	28	Experimental	8	PureBasic
55	zhiqin1998/RecurrentIPR This is the code repo of our AACL-IJCNLP 2022 on IPR protection of Recurrent...	28	Experimental	8	Python
56	zhihanyang2022/aevb-tutorial Minimal VAE, Conditional VAE (CVAE), Gaussian Mixture VAE (GMVAE) and...	27	Experimental	14	Jupyter Notebook
57	SantoshDhirwani/stick_breaking_vae Implementing Stick-Breaking Variational Auto-encoder in Pytorch & Keras (Python3)	27	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
58	dpernes/vae Customisable Variational Autoencoder in PyTorch	26	Experimental	9	Python
59	13muskanp/Image-Denoising-Using-Autoencoder Building and training an image denoising autoencoder using Keras with...	26	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
60	NicklasVraa/VAE_based_segmentation Exploring variational-autoencoder-based semantic segmentation for analyzing CT-scans.	26	Experimental	21	Jupyter Notebook
61	pmarinroig/c-vae A fully functional Convolutional VAE implemented in pure C from scratch.	25	Experimental	23	C
62	AmirhosseinHonardoust/Teaching-Neural-Networks-to-Imagine-Tables A comprehensive deep dive into how Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) learn to...	25	Experimental	22	—
63	pierridotite/CIFAR10-CompressAI Convolutional autoencoder for compressing and reconstructing CIFAR-10 images...	25	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
64	akashsara/fusion-dance Pixel VQ-VAEs for Improved Pixel Art Representation	23	Experimental	17	Jupyter Notebook
65	pi-tau/vae Pytorch implementation of a Variational Autoencoder trained on CIFAR-10. The...	23	Experimental	16	Python
66	andleb/DistributionalAutoencodersScore Official code repository for Distributional Autoencoders Know the Score, NeurIPS 2025	23	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
67	aillaud/VQVAE_Flax Implementation of basic autoencodeur, VAE and VQVAE in Flax	22	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
68	Robotmurlock/VariationalAutoEncoder Implementation of the Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes paper in Pytorch with...	20	Experimental	11	Jupyter Notebook
69	sagnik1511/Conv-AE-Tensorflow-Keras Convolutional Auto Encoder in Tensorflow >= 2.2.0	20	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
70	khanmhmdi/Cifar-Image-Reconstruction-using-Autoencoder-Models Cifar-10 Image Reconstruction using Auto-encoder Models	20	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
71	O-Albz/TIF360ProjectD A convolutional conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) for audio...	19	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
72	IParraMartin/Sparse-Autoencoder A PyTorch implementation of a Sparse Auto Encoder (SAE) using MSE loss and...	19	Experimental	27	Python
73	hkproj/vae-from-scratch-notes Notes about the video on the Variational Autoencoder	19	Experimental	13	—
74	pranotosh2/AutoEncoder Used Fundus Image Dataset to Generate Image	14	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
75	Nehal-Garg/cnn-autoencoder-mnist CNN-based autoencoder for MNIST image reconstruction and representation learning	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
76	rekalantar/VariationalAutoencoders_Pytorch Variational Autoencoder (VAE) PyTorch Tutorial from Scratch	13	Experimental	10	Jupyter Notebook
77	MahanVeisi8/VAE-MNIST-Variable-Latent-Size-Reconstruction-and-Visualization Dive into the world of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) with MNIST! 🎨✨...	13	Experimental	10	Jupyter Notebook
78	generic-github-user/TensorFlow.js-VAE A variational autoencoder for TensorFlow.js	13	Experimental	9	JavaScript
79	AlaaSedeeq/Convolutional-Autoencoder-PyTorch Convolutional Autoencoder using PyTorch	13	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
80	gabrielelobosco/denoising-autoencoder-r Image Denoising with Autoencoders in R (University Project) Built a...	13	Experimental	—	R
81	tschechlovdev/AutoEncoder_KMeans Implementation of AutoEncoder in PyTorch for k-Means Clustering	12	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
82	xnought/vq-vae-explainer Interactive VQ-VAE (Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder) in the browser	12	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
83	Ant0in/Projet5-IA Autoencoder python implementation for Machine Learning and image...	11	Experimental	—	TeX
84	Hevenicio/Image-Denoising-Using-AutoEncoders-in-Keras-and-Python Image Denoising Using AutoEncoders in Keras and Python. [Project done on...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
85	ri-heme/02456 Visualizing genetic ancestry with variational autoencoders	11	Experimental	—	HTML
86	RickDYang/mnist-vae This repositry is for AI beginers to learn VAE model from code scratch.	11	Experimental	—	Python
87	ChaitanyaK77/Advanced_Image_Reconstruction_Autoencoders. Advanced Image Reconstruction using Autoencoders is a project that explores...	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook

Comparisons in this category

pytorch-vae and PyTorch-VAE (50 vs 49) variational-autoencoder and pytorch-vae (51 vs 50) pytorch-vae and VAE-CVAE-MNIST (50 vs 43) pytorch-vae and pytorch-vq-vae (50 vs 48) pytorch-vae and s-vae-pytorch (50 vs 46)