Divergence measures and a general framework for local variational approximation.

Kazuho Watanabe Masato Okada Kazushi Ikeda

Published in: Neural Networks (2011)

Keyphrases

variational approximation
kullback leibler
bayesian inference
latent variables
approximate inference
kl divergence
variational inference
cross entropy
variational bayes
distance measure
exact inference
em algorithm
evaluation measures
information theoretic