We conduct various experiments to illustrate the properties that are encouraged via different KL magnitudes. In particular, we revisit the interdependence between rate and distortion, and shed light on the impact of KL on the sharpness of the approximated posteriors. Then, through a set of qualitative and quantitative experiments for text generation, we demonstrate how certain generative behaviours could be imposed on VAEs via a range of maximum channel capacities. Finally, we run some experiments to find if any form of syntactic information is encoded in the latent space. 
 Question: What different properties of the posterior distribution are explored in the paper?
interdependence between rate and distortion impact of KL on the sharpness of the approximated posteriors demonstrate how certain generative behaviours could be imposed on VAEs via a range of maximum channel capacities some experiments to find if any form of syntactic information is encoded in the latent space