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stat.ML2017★ 183 cited
Frequentist Consistency of Variational Bayes
Yixin Wang, David M. Blei
A key challenge for modern Bayesian statistics is how to perform scalable inference of posterior distributions. To address this challenge, variational Bayes (VB) methods have emerg…
stat.ME2017★ 90 cited
Minimal Dispersion Approximately Balancing Weights: Asymptotic Properties and Practical Considerations
Yixin Wang, José R. Zubizarreta
Weighting methods are widely used to adjust for covariates in observational studies, sample surveys, and regression settings. In this paper, we study a class of recently proposed w…