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stat.ML2015
Scalable Modeling of Conversational-role based Self-presentation Characteristics in Large Online Forums
Abhimanu Kumar, Shriphani Palakodety, Chong Wang +3
Online discussion forums are complex webs of overlapping subcommunities (macrolevel structure, across threads) in which users enact different roles depending on which subcommunity…
stat.ML2015★ 9 cited
Embarrassingly Parallel Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models
Willie Neiswanger, Chong Wang, Eric Xing
We develop a parallel variational inference (VI) procedure for use in data-distributed settings, where each machine only has access to a subset of data and runs VI independently, w…
stat.ML2015★ 6 cited
A General Method for Robust Bayesian Modeling
Chong Wang, David M. Blei
Robust Bayesian models are appealing alternatives to standard models, providing protection from data that contains outliers or other departures from the model assumptions. Historic…