2 papers
stat.CO2026
The Curious Case of the Default Settings: Evaluating Default Performance of Variational Inference Software
Madelyn Andersen, Elizabeth Bersson, Tamara Broderick
We systematically evaluate a suite of off-the-shelf variational inference (VI) software packages from the perspective of a standard practitioner. Using simple analytic benchmark mo…
stat.ME2026
Feature aware covariance estimation, with application to mixtures of chemical exposures
Elizabeth Bersson, Kate Hoffman, Heather M. Stapleton +1
The motivation of this article is to improve inferences on the covariation in environmental exposures, motivated by data from a study of Toddlers Exposure to SVOCs in Indoor Enviro…