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The Concrete Distribution: A Continuous Relaxation of Discrete Random Variables
Chris J. Maddison, Andriy Mnih, Yee Whye Teh
The reparameterization trick enables optimizing large scale stochastic computation graphs via gradient descent. The essence of the trick is to refactor each stochastic node into a…
stat.CO2016
A Poisson process model for Monte Carlo
Chris J. Maddison
Simulating samples from arbitrary probability distributions is a major research program of statistical computing. Recent work has shown promise in an old idea, that sampling from a…