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stat.CO2016
Spectral M-estimation with Applications to Hidden Markov Models
Dustin Tran, Minjae Kim, Finale Doshi-Velez
Method of moment estimators exhibit appealing statistical properties, such as asymptotic unbiasedness, for nonconvex problems. However, they typically require a large number of sam…
stat.ML2016
Automatic Differentiation Variational Inference
Alp Kucukelbir, Dustin Tran, Rajesh Ranganath +2
Probabilistic modeling is iterative. A scientist posits a simple model, fits it to her data, refines it according to her analysis, and repeats. However, fitting complex models to l…