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Why are coordinate ascent algorithms (EM, variational EM) preferred over gradient methods for generative probabilistic models?

Aug 11 '10 at 06:29 Alexandre Passos ♦25541

bayesian em newton optimization variational-inference

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The choice of MCMC and Variational Inference

Oct 01 '10 at 10:50 Joseph Turian ♦♦5790 (asked by Liangjie Hong256 )

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About the original variational LDA algorithm

Mar 11 '14 at 10:43 Anne van Rossum1 (asked by Alexandre Passos ♦25541 )

lda paper-understanding variational-inference

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On the expectations necessary to do variational inference for LDA

Dec 30 '10 at 03:36 Alexandre Passos ♦25541

lda topic-models derivation-help variational-inference

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Which language/framework do you use to implement (directed) graphical models?

Jul 31 '10 at 00:48 yoavg741 (asked by Alexandre Passos ♦25541 )

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Alternatives to MCMC and/or maximum likelihood for deep architectures?

Aug 31 '10 at 23:36 Truyen Tran1 (asked by jbowlan106 )

mcmc variational-inference message-passing maximum-likelihood deep-learning l1 belief-propagation

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How can I write the density function of the dirichlet process?

Feb 09 '11 at 09:54 Philemon Brakel2445 (asked by Alexandre Passos ♦25541 )

bayesian dirichlet-process mixture variational-inference

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Empirical vs variational Bayes

Mar 13 '11 at 08:11 Philemon Brakel2445

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Where is my mistake, or can the variational lower-bound on the log-likelihood be zero?

Apr 01 '11 at 06:04 Alexandre Passos ♦25541

bayesian graphical-models variational-inference

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choosing an inference method

Apr 12 '12 at 20:10 Alexandre Passos ♦25541 (asked by ccb1 )

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