2 papers
stat.ML2019
Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning
Shakir Mohamed, Mihaela Rosca, Michael Figurnov +1
This paper is a broad and accessible survey of the methods we have at our disposal for Monte Carlo gradient estimation in machine learning and across the statistical sciences: the…
cs.LG2017
Probabilistic Adaptive Computation Time
Michael Figurnov, Artem Sobolev, Dmitry Vetrov
We present a probabilistic model with discrete latent variables that control the computation time in deep learning models such as ResNets and LSTMs. A prior on the latent variables…