AutoencoderKL The variational autoencoder (VAE) model with KL loss was introduced in Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes by Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling. The model is used in 🤗 Diffusers to encode images into latents and to decode latent representations into images. The abstract from the paper is: How can we perform efficient inference and learning in directed probabilistic models, in the presence of continuous latent variables with intractab