Scaling and Generalizing Variational Inference
Neyman Seminar
Mar 9, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
David Blei, Columbia University
Latent variable models have become a key tool for the modern
statistician, letting us express complex assumptions about the hidden
structures that underlie our data. Latent variable models have been
successfully applied in numerous fields.
The central computational problem in latent variable modeling is
posterior inference, the problem of approximating the conditional
distribution of the...