Nonparametric variational inference

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 663-670

  Gershman, Samuel J ^a   Hoffman, Matthew D ^b   Blei, David M ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGACY; GRAPHICAL MODEL; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOWER BOUNDS; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; MULTIPLE KERNELS; MULTIPLE MODES; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONLINEAR MATRIX; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION; VARIATIONAL INFERENCE; VARIATIONAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL PARAMETERS;

LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867112898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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