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10/12/2022
Alpha-divergence Variational Inference Meets Importance Weighted Auto-Encoders: Methodology and Asymptotics
Several algorithms involving the Variational Rényi (VR) bound have been ...
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06/09/2021
Mixture weights optimisation for Alpha-Divergence Variational Inference
This paper focuses on α-divergence minimisation methods for Variational ...
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03/09/2021
Monotonic Alpha-divergence Minimisation
In this paper, we introduce a novel iterative algorithm which carries ou...
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05/20/2020
Infinite-dimensional gradient-based descent for alpha-divergence minimisation
This paper introduces the (α, Γ)-descent, an iterative algorithm which o...
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09/26/2019