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MCMC Variational Inference via Uncorrected Hamiltonian Annealing
Tomas Geffner, Justin Domke
Given an unnormalized target distribution we want to obtain approximate samples from it and a tight lower bound on its (log) normalization constant log Z. Annealed Importance Sampl…
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Empirical Evaluation of Biased Methods for Alpha Divergence Minimization
Tomas Geffner, Justin Domke
In this paper we empirically evaluate biased methods for alpha-divergence minimization. In particular, we focus on how the bias affects the final solutions found, and how this depe…