Can I also expand in this topic? Just today I just posted a very similar question here at the AI stack: https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/21598/conditional-variational-autoencoder-non-image-data 30
And what if I were to concatenate additional information of type continuous? How to proceed? Would the network be able to capture the additional information by concatenation? (For e.g 300 hidden neurons post convolution + 1 for the added info). I tried both this and expanding the 1D additional info, to let´s say, 10. I wasn´t very sucessfull in both. The VAE just ignores the added info.
Any thoughts on that?