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变分推断(Variational Inference,下文简称VI)是一大类通过简单分布近似复杂分布、求解推断(inference)问题的方法的统称,具体包括平均场变分推断等算法。首先让我们来看如何得到变分推断优化问题的具体形式。 2. 变分推断 我们假设x是观测变量(或者叫证据变量、输入变量),z是隐变量(或者说是我们希望推断的label,在监督学习...
理解:找到使得泛函最大化或者最小化的函数就是变分法 “Although there is nothing intrinsically approximate about variational methods, they do naturally lend themselves to finding approximate solutions. This is done by restricting the range of functions over which the optimization is performed”(Bishop, 2...
This paper developed a new method based on variational approximation of sequential Bayesian inference (VASB). Concepts and notions of the sequential Bayesian analysis and the variational approximation of an intractable posterior are simple and straightforward. Our VASB algorithm is not complicated and is...
It does so by minimizing a Monte Carlo approximation of the exponentiated upper bound, L = exp{n · CUBOn(λ)}. 4 Algorithm 1: χ-divergence variational inference (CHIVI) Input: Data x, Model p(x, z), Variational family q(z; λ). Output: Variational parameters λ. Initialize λ ...
Publication|Publication|Publication|Publication Variational inference (VI) plays an essential role in approximate Bayesian inference due to its computational efficiency and broad applicability. Crucial to the performance of VI is the selection of the associated divergence measure, as VI approximates the int...
introduction to variational methods in graphical model 用简单分布的族 把复杂分布包裹起来 ,然后复杂分布的每一点都有一个简单分布的参数来近似 一夏 吕(992463596) 21:42:47 thanks 他还有一本书 是Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference huajh7(284696304) 21:43:25 Neal,...
assumed that the approximate posterior has a spike-and-slab distribution; although it is not conjugated to the logistic distribution, we observed it to provide a good approximation to the true posterior. The ELBO, which we again optimized using stochastic variational inference, now takes the form:...
sigma=sd)trace=pm.sample(50_000,return_inferencedata=False)withmodel:idata=pm.to_inference_data(...
Neural Variational Inference for Text Processing 传统方法的约束:随着generation模型复杂度、深度的提升,高维积分给对后验分布的变分推断带来了困难;模型的微小改变就需要重新求导,限制了对数据的不同分布假设;数据规模较大时Gibbs采样效率低 于是,不同于传统的变分推断、近似采样等方法,NVI通过Black-Box直接对h后验概...