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stat.ML2021★ 2 cited
Interpolating between sampling and variational inference with infinite stochastic mixtures
Richard D. Lange, Ari Benjamin, Ralf M. Haefner +1
Sampling and Variational Inference (VI) are two large families of methods for approximate inference that have complementary strengths. Sampling methods excel at approximating arbit…
q-bio.NC2021
Phase transitions in when feedback is useful
Lokesh Boominathan, Xaq Pitkow
Sensory observations about the world are invariably ambiguous. Inference about the world's latent variables is thus an important computation for the brain. However, computational c…
cs.AI2021
Generalization of graph network inferences in higher-order graphical models
Yicheng Fei, Xaq Pitkow
Probabilistic graphical models provide a powerful tool to describe complex statistical structure, with many real-world applications in science and engineering from controlling robo…