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Annealed Importance Sampling with q-Paths
Rob Brekelmans, Vaden Masrani, Thang Bui +4
Annealed importance sampling (AIS) is the gold standard for estimating partition functions or marginal likelihoods, corresponding to importance sampling over a path of distribution…
Gaussian Process Bandit Optimization of the Thermodynamic Variational Objective
Vu Nguyen, Vaden Masrani, Rob Brekelmans +2
Achieving the full promise of the Thermodynamic Variational Objective (TVO), a recently proposed variational lower bound on the log evidence involving a one-dimensional Riemann int…
All in the Exponential Family: Bregman Duality in Thermodynamic Variational Inference
Rob Brekelmans, Vaden Masrani, Frank Wood +2
The recently proposed Thermodynamic Variational Objective (TVO) leverages thermodynamic integration to provide a family of variational inference objectives, which both tighten and…