Just to be abundantly clear - the ladder network [1] outscores this by a moderate margin, and is also <i>actually</i> SOTA without data augmentation. In my mind at least, adding data rotations in the latent space is still different than a fully connected model without data augmentation.<p>I could do with a few more recent citations on generative modeling. It seems the author isn&#x27;t 100% aware of some of the most recent generative modeling work.<p>That said, the ideas presented are interesting and seem complimentary to lots of existing approaches - I will be looking into this paper further.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1507.02672" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1507.02672</a>