Keyphrases
- variational bayes
- free energy
- variational approximation
- bayesian inference
- posterior distribution
- latent variables
- hyperparameters
- belief propagation
- bayesian learning
- probability distribution
- fixed point
- bayesian framework
- latent dirichlet allocation
- gaussian mixture model
- upper bound
- probabilistic model
- closed form
- exponential family
- competitive learning
- markov chain monte carlo
- prior information
- machine learning
- maximum a posteriori
- cross validation
- approximate inference
- incremental learning
- log likelihood
- random sampling
- belief networks
- graphical models
- image segmentation