VarGrad: A Low-Variance Gradient Estimator for Variational Inference.
Lorenz RichterAyman BoustatiNikolas NüskenFrancisco J. R. RuizÖmer Deniz AkyildizPublished in: NeurIPS (2020)
Keyphrases
- variational inference
- low variance
- unbiased estimator
- bias variance
- bayesian inference
- topic models
- real valued
- posterior distribution
- gaussian process
- probabilistic model
- probabilistic graphical models
- latent dirichlet allocation
- mixture model
- exponential family
- variational methods
- closed form
- maximum likelihood
- naive bayes
- maximum a posteriori
- least squares
- factor graphs
- generative model
- exact inference
- latent variables
- hyperparameters
- graphical models
- approximate inference
- probability distribution
- parameter estimation
- level set
- decision trees