Note on the bias and variance of variational inference.
Chin-Wei HuangAaron C. CourvillePublished in: CoRR (2019)
Keyphrases
- variational inference
- bayesian inference
- topic models
- posterior distribution
- probabilistic graphical models
- mixture model
- gaussian process
- probabilistic model
- variational methods
- latent dirichlet allocation
- closed form
- exponential family
- approximate inference
- graphical models
- exact inference
- factor graphs
- latent variables
- bayesian framework
- belief propagation
- markov networks
- multiscale
- dimensionality reduction