Extending Mean-Field Variational Inference via Entropic Regularization: Theory and Computation.
Bohan WuDavid M. BleiPublished in: CoRR (2024)
Keyphrases
- variational inference
- bayesian inference
- posterior distribution
- gaussian process
- topic models
- probabilistic graphical models
- variational approximation
- mixture model
- probabilistic model
- variational methods
- latent dirichlet allocation
- closed form
- prior information
- information theory
- exact inference
- exponential family
- graphical models
- approximate inference
- em algorithm
- first order logic
- hyperparameters
- latent variables
- machine learning
- regression model
- conditional random fields
- parameter estimation
- maximum likelihood
- factor graphs
- probability distribution
- prior knowledge