2 papers
stat.ML2025
Particle Semi-Implicit Variational Inference
Jen Ning Lim, Adam M. Johansen
Semi-implicit variational inference (SIVI) enriches the expressiveness of variational families by utilizing a kernel and a mixing distribution to hierarchically define the variatio…
cs.LG2024
Momentum Particle Maximum Likelihood
Jen Ning Lim, Juan Kuntz, Samuel Power +1
Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of latent variable models is often recast as the minimization of a free energy functional over an extended space of parameters and probability d…