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stat.ML2019★ 8 cited
Stein's Lemma for the Reparameterization Trick with Exponential Family Mixtures
Wu Lin, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Mark Schmidt
Stein's method (Stein, 1973; 1981) is a powerful tool for statistical applications and has significantly impacted machine learning. Stein's lemma plays an essential role in Stein's…
stat.ML2019★ 28 cited
Fast and Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference with Mixture of Exponential-family Approximations
Wu Lin, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Mark Schmidt
Natural-gradient methods enable fast and simple algorithms for variational inference, but due to computational difficulties, their use is mostly limited to \emph{minimal} exponenti…