Generative Adversarial Networks, Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio, 2014Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 27DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1406.2661 - The seminal paper introducing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a cornerstone of implicit density modeling discussed in the section.
Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes, Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling, 2013International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2014)DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1312.6114 - The original paper on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), which exemplifies an explicit density model that approximates likelihood for complex data distributions.
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models, Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, Pieter Abbeel, 2020Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 33DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2006.11239 - This paper introduced Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs), a highly influential approach in generative modeling that connects to likelihood estimation through denoising objectives.
Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction, Kevin P. Murphy, 2022 (MIT Press) - Provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for probabilistic modeling and machine learning, with a dedicated chapter on generative models, reinforcing the core concepts of data distributions and model approximation.