StructuredVariationalLearningofBayesianNeuralNetworkswithHorseshoePriorsSoumyaGhosh12JiayuYao3FinaleDoshi-Velez3Abstract200TrainingPoints100TrainingPoints20TrainingPoints10UnitBNN100UnitBNN1000Unit...
SteinVariationalMessagePassingforContinuousGraphicalModelsDilinWang1ZheZeng2QiangLiu1Abstractpropagateuncertainty,wellsuitedfordecentralizedinfer-encetaskssuchassensornetworklocalization(e.g.,Ihler...
SteinVariationalGradientDescentWithoutGradientJunHan1QiangLiu2AbstractMCMCandVI.Byleveraginganewtypeoffunctionalgra-dientdescentofKLdivergenceonthespaceofdistributions,SteinVariationalgradientdecen...
Semi-ImplicitVariationalInferenceMingzhangYin1MingyuanZhou2Abstractmean-fieldassumptionthatQisfactorizedoverthelatentvariables.TheoptimizationproblemisfurthersimplifiedifSemi-implicitVariationalinf...
Semi-AmortizedVariationalAutoencodersYoonKim1SamWiseman1AndrewC.Miller1DavidSontag2AlexanderM.Rush1AbstractInstochasticVariationalinference(SVI),theVariationalparametersforeachdatapointarerandomlyi...
Quasi-MonteCarloVariationalInferenceAlexanderBuchholz1FlorianWenzel2StephanMandt3Abstractceduresrelyonthegradientoftheobjective,amcgradientestimatorhastobebuiltbysamplingfromthisdistribution.Manyma...
NoisyNaturalGradientasVariationalInferenceGuodongZhang12ShengyangSun12DavidDuvenaud12RogerGrosse12Abstract&Welling,2017),butfittingsuchmodelscanbeexpensivewithoutfurtherapproximations.VariationalBa...
MessagePassingSteinVariationalGradientDescentJingweiZhuo1ChangLiu1JiaxinShi1JunZhu1NingChen1BoZhang1Abstractparametricfamiliesascommonlydoneintraditionalvari-ationalinference(VI)methods.Besides,SVG...
Large-ScaleCoxProcessInferenceusingVariationalFourierFeaturesSTJohn1JamesHensman1Abstractspatiotemporaldomain,whichcannotbecomputedingen-eral.Therearethreepotentialremediestothisissue.First,Gaussia...
JunctionTreeVariationalAutoencoderforMolecularGraphGenerationWengongJin1ReginaBarzilay1TommiJaakkola1AbstractFigure1.TwoalmostidenticalmoleculeswithmarkedlydifferentcanonicalSMILESinRDKit.Theeditdi...
InferenceSuboptimalityinVariationalAutoencodersChrisCremer1XuechenLi1DavidDuvenaud1AbstractFig.1forasimpleillustrationofthegaps.InFig.1,L[q]referstotheELBOevaluatedusinganamortizeddistribu-Amortize...
EfficientModel–BasedDeepReinforcementLearningwithVariationalStateTabulationDaneCorneil1WulframGerstner1JohanniBrea1Abstractstates(e.g.Mnihetal.(2015;2016))andlearningapproxi-matedynamicstoperformp...
EfficientGradient-FreeVariationalInferenceusingPolicySearchOlegArenz1MingjunZhong2GerhardNeumann13Abstractuseitforinference,acommonapproachistouseVaria-tionalInference(VI)toapproximatethetargetdist...
DVAE++:DiscreteVariationalAutoencoderswithOverlappingTransformationsArashVahdat1WilliamG.Macready1ZhengbingBian1AmirKhoshaman1EvgenyAndriyash1AbstractSoftmaxtechnique(Maddisonetal.,2016;Jangetal.,2...
DeepVariationalReinforcementLearningforPOMDPsMaximilianIgl1LuisaZintgraf1TuanAnhLe1FrankWood2ShimonWhiteson1Abstract(a)RNN-basedapproach.TheRNNactsasanencoderfortheaction-observationhistory,onwhich...
CRVI:ConvexRelaxationforVariationalInferenceGhazalFazelnia1JohnPaisley1AbstractconvexitiesinVariationalinference(VI)optimizationforconjugatemodelsthatachieveneargloballyoptimalso-Wepresentanewtechn...
CompressingNeuralNetworksusingtheVariationalInformationBottleneckBinDai1ChenZhu2BainingGuo3DavidWipf3Abstractnetworkpruneddowntoasmalleroneofequivalentsizeoftenproduceshigheraccuracy(Linetal.,2017)...
Black-BoxVariationalInferenceforStochasticDifferentialEquationsThomasRyder12AndrewGolightly1A.StephenMcGough2DennisPrangle1Abstracterrorinvolvedconvergestozeroasthegridbecomesfiner.Parameterinferen...
VariationalInferenceforSparseandUndirectedModelsJohnIngraham1DeboraMarks1AbstractL0norm,L1regularizationcannotmodelthehypothesisofsparsityaswellassomeBayesianalternatives(Tipping,Undirectedgraphica...
VariationalPolicyforGuidingPointProcessesYichenWang1GradyWilliams2EvangelosTheodorou2LeSong1AbstractOurworkTemporalpointprocesseshavebeenwidelyap-Findoptimalmeasure6∗6∗inclosedformVariationalInfe...