that makes it very appealing that said there are disadvantages you often end up with Lurie samples and assumption of a factorize Gaussian for the posterior or for the decoder this may be very limiting and you need more powerful decoders or more powerful posteriors and large scale successes are still yet to be shown and even though people have tried to like get more interpretable more disentangling variables by prioritizing the KL term over the reconstruction term the last it's still only work on toy problems and they may