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stat.ML2016★ 47 cited
Boosting Variational Inference
Fangjian Guo, Xiangyu Wang, Kai Fan +2
Variational inference (VI) provides fast approximations of a Bayesian posterior in part because it formulates posterior approximation as an optimization problem: to find the closes…
stat.ML2016★ 12 cited
Towards Unifying Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Slice Sampling
Yizhe Zhang, Xiangyu Wang, Changyou Chen +3
We unify slice sampling and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling, demonstrating their connection via the Hamiltonian-Jacobi equation from Hamiltonian mechanics. This insight enab…