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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…
cs.LG2016★ 141 cited
Variational inference for Monte Carlo objectives
Andriy Mnih, Danilo J. Rezende
Recent progress in deep latent variable models has largely been driven by the development of flexible and scalable variational inference methods. Variational training of this type…