Another recent work that takes advantage of VAEs is World Models: https://worldmodels.github.io/ https://worldmodels.github.io/ It did have an issue where the

Another recent work that takes advantage of VAEs is World Models: https://worldmodels.github.io/ https://worldmodels.github.io/ It did have an issue where the VAE recreates unnecessary features, as the training did not consider feature saliency.