An Ordering of Divergences for Variational Inference with Factorized Gaussian Approximations.
Charles C. MargossianLoucas Pillaud-VivienLawrence K. SaulPublished in: CoRR (2024)
Keyphrases
- variational inference
- exponential family
- variational methods
- maximum likelihood
- closed form
- bayesian inference
- topic models
- posterior distribution
- probabilistic model
- gaussian process
- mixture model
- latent dirichlet allocation
- probabilistic graphical models
- gaussian distribution
- approximate inference
- log likelihood
- graphical models
- statistical models
- exact inference
- density estimation
- optic flow
- generative model
- missing values
- optical flow estimation
- level set
- kullback leibler
- gaussian mixture model
- parameter estimation
- conditional random fields
- semi supervised
- probability distribution
- hyperparameters
- probabilistic inference
- em algorithm
- higher order