Boosting Variational Inference: an Optimization Perspective.

Francesco Locatello Rajiv Khanna Joydeep Ghosh Gunnar Rätsch

Published in: AISTATS (2018)

Keyphrases

variational inference
bayesian inference
latent dirichlet allocation
closed form
gaussian process

probabilistic model
mixture model
topic models
probabilistic graphical models

posterior distribution
image reconstruction
generative model
learning algorithm

graphical models
information extraction
variational methods
exponential family