GeneralizedDoubly-ReparameterizedGradientEstimatorsMatthiasBauer1AndriyMnih1AbstractusuallypreferunbiasedEstimatorsastheytendtobebetter-behavedandarebetterunderstood.LowervarianceisalsoEfficientlow...
UnbiasedRiskEstimatorsCanMislead:ACaseStudyofLearningwithComplementaryLabelsYu-TingChou1GangNiu2Hsuan-TienLin1MasashiSugiyama23Abstractetal.,2014;2015;Niuetal.,2016;Sakaietal.,2017;2018),unlabeled-...
StochasticOptimizationforRegularizedWassersteinEstimatorsMarinBallu1QuentinBerthet2FrancisBach3Abstractcantransportmasswithdistributionmeasureµtoanotherdistributionmeasureν,withminimalglobaltrans...
NonparametricScoreEstimatorsYuhaoZhou1JiaxinShi1JunZhu1Abstractcludeparametricscorematching(Hyva¨rinen,2005;Sasakietal.,2014;Songetal.,2019),itsdenoisingvariantsasEstimatingthescore,i.e.,thegradie...
Likelihood-freeMCMCwithAmortizedApproximateRatioEstimatorsJoeriHermans1VolodimirBegy2GillesLouppe1AbstractratioofposteriordensitiesbetweenconsecutivestatesintheMarkovchain.Thisallowstheposteriortob...
ConsistentEstimatorsforLearningtoDefertoanExpertHusseinMozannar1DavidSontag1Abstractobstaclesarelimitingcompleteautomation,anintermediatesteptoautomatingthistaskwillbetheuseofmodelsasLearningalgori...
OntheDesignofEstimatorsforBanditOff-PolicyEvaluationNikosVlassis1AurelienBibaut2MariaDimakopoulou1TonyJebara1Abstractofgreatinterest:Givenabanditmodel,whatisalow-riskestimatorofthecounterfactualtar...
OnNestingMonteCarloEstimatorsTomRainforth1RobertCornish12HongseokYang3AndrewWarrington2FrankWood4Abstractfromportfolioriskmanagement(Gordy&Juneja,2010)tostochasticcontrol(Belomestnyetal.,2010).Inpa...
LinearSpectralEstimatorsandanApplicationtoPhaseRetrievalRaminaGhods1AndrewS.Lan2TomGoldstein3ChristophStuder1AbstractexistingresultsonphaseretrievalthatassumerandomnessinthemeasurementmatrixA,wefoc...
EvaluatingtheVarianceofLikelihood-RatioGradientEstimatorsSeiyaTokui12IsseiSato32Abstractforevariancereductioniscrucialforpracticallearning.However,fewthingsareknownaboutitstheoreticalas-Thelikeliho...