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stat.ML2018★ 31 cited
ARM: Augment-REINFORCE-Merge Gradient for Stochastic Binary Networks
Mingzhang Yin, Mingyuan Zhou
To backpropagate the gradients through stochastic binary layers, we propose the augment-REINFORCE-merge (ARM) estimator that is unbiased, exhibits low variance, and has low computa…
stat.ML2018★ 25 cited
Semi-Implicit Variational Inference
Mingzhang Yin, Mingyuan Zhou
Semi-implicit variational inference (SIVI) is introduced to expand the commonly used analytic variational distribution family, by mixing the variational parameter with a flexible d…