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Approximate inference via variational sampling
Alexis Roche
A new method called "variational sampling" is proposed to estimate integrals under probability distributions that can be evaluated up to a normalizing constant. The key idea is to…
stat.CO2011★ 22 cited
EM algorithm and variants: an informal tutorial
Alexis Roche
The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm introduced by Dempster et al in 1977 is a very general method to solve maximum likelihood estimation problems. In this informal report,…