Bayes Reading Group: Bob Carpenter

Friday Mar 24, 2023, 11:00 AM → 12:00 PM America/New_York

3rd Floor Conference Room/3-Flatiron Institute (162 5th Avenue)

Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter [CCM]
Topic: (1) Advances in Black-Box VI: Normalizing Flows, Importance Weighting, and Optimization  Abhinav Agrawal, Daniel Sheldon, Justin Domke.  2020.
code: https://github.com/abhiagwl/vistan
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10343
(2) Challenges and Opportunities in High Dimensional Variational Inference
Akash Kumar Dhaka, Alejandro Catalina, Manushi Welandawe, Michael Riis Andersen, Jonathan Huggins, Aki Vehtari.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01085