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Nested Variational Inference
Heiko Zimmermann, Hao Wu, Babak Esmaeili +1
We develop nested variational inference (NVI), a family of methods that learn proposals for nested importance samplers by minimizing an forward or reverse KL divergence at each lev…
Learning Proposals for Probabilistic Programs with Inference Combinators
Sam Stites, Heiko Zimmermann, Hao Wu +2
We develop operators for construction of proposals in probabilistic programs, which we refer to as inference combinators. Inference combinators define a grammar over importance sam…
Amortized Population Gibbs Samplers with Neural Sufficient Statistics
Hao Wu, Heiko Zimmermann, Eli Sennesh +2
We develop amortized population Gibbs (APG) samplers, a class of scalable methods that frames structured variational inference as adaptive importance sampling. APG samplers constru…
Structured Disentangled Representations
Babak Esmaeili, Hao Wu, Sarthak Jain +6
Deep latent-variable models learn representations of high-dimensional data in an unsupervised manner. A number of recent efforts have focused on learning representations that disen…