Variational Inference over Combinatorial Spaces.
Alexandre Bouchard-CôtéMichael I. JordanPublished in: NIPS (2010)
Keyphrases
- variational inference
- bayesian inference
- topic models
- latent dirichlet allocation
- variational methods
- mixture model
- posterior distribution
- gaussian process
- probabilistic graphical models
- probabilistic model
- closed form
- exponential family
- exact inference
- prior information
- approximate inference
- generative model
- latent variables
- data mining
- graphical models
- hyperparameters
- factor graphs
- machine learning
- markov chain monte carlo
- markov networks
- bayesian networks
- prior knowledge
- higher order
- information extraction