Computational Bayesian Statistics Journal Club

Friday Feb 5, 2021, 11:00 AM → 12:00 PM America/New_York

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Date: Friday, 5 February, 11 am
Discussion Lead:  Bob Carpenter [CCM]
Papers:

• Duvenaud, Maclurin, and Adams.  2016.  Early stopping as variational inference. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/duvenaud16.pdf

• Mandt, Hoffman, and Blei.  2017.  Stochastic Gradient Descent as Approximate Bayesian Inference. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-214/17-214.pdf

These papers both present approaches to variational inference based on optimization algorithms, so I thought we could talk about both of them together.

 

 

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