A variational approximation to the problem of the deflection of a bar.
E. N. AksanA. ÖzdesA. EsenPublished in: Appl. Math. Comput. (2004)
Keyphrases
- variational approximation
- approximate inference
- exact inference
- latent variables
- bayesian inference
- em algorithm
- continuous time bayesian networks
- kullback leibler
- variational bayes
- variational inference
- markov chain monte carlo
- graphical models
- cluster ensemble
- probabilistic model
- hyperparameters
- belief networks
- bayesian networks
- probabilistic inference
- posterior distribution
- generative model
- message passing
- belief propagation
- variational methods
- gaussian mixture model
- probabilistic graphical models
- kl divergence
- prior information
- topic models
- parameter estimation
- mixture model
- distance measure