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stat.ML2014★ 25 cited
Deep Exponential Families
Rajesh Ranganath, Linpeng Tang, Laurent Charlin +1
We describe \textit{deep exponential families} (DEFs), a class of latent variable models that are inspired by the hidden structures used in deep neural networks. DEFs capture a hie…
stat.ML2014★ 20 cited
Variational Tempering
Stephan Mandt, James McInerney, Farhan Abrol +2
Variational inference (VI) combined with data subsampling enables approximate posterior inference over large data sets, but suffers from poor local optima. We first formulate a det…