Continuous sigmoidal belief networks trained using slice sampling

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 452-458

  Frey, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

HIDDEN VARIABLE; LATENT STRUCTURES; SLICE SAMPLINGS; SQUASHING FUNCTIONS; TOPDOWN;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84898944413     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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