approximation

Stein’s method 2021-03-12 – 2021-05-12

Probability divergences Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses 2014-11-25 – 2021-05-12

Generically approximating probability distributions 2021-03-12 – 2021-03-22

Reparameterization tricks in inference Normalizing flows, invertible density models, inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2021-03-08

Recommender systems 2020-11-30

Variational inference by message-passing in graphical models 2014-11-25 – 2020-11-25

ELBO Evidence lower bound, variational free energy etc 2020-10-02 – 2020-10-28

Efficient factoring of GP likelihoods 2020-10-16 – 2020-10-26

Differentiating through the Gamma 2020-06-12 – 2020-10-15

Data summarization On maps drawn at smaller than 1:1 scale 2019-01-14 – 2020-09-18

Variational autoencoders 2019-11-04 – 2020-09-10

Variational inference On fitting the best model one can be bothered to 2016-03-22 – 2020-05-24

The interpretation of densities as intensities and vice versa Point process of observations ↔ observation of a point process 2016-09-13 – 2019-09-23

Nearly sufficient statistics How about “Sufficient sufficiency”? — is that taken? 2018-03-13 – 2019-01-14

Expectation propagation 2015-10-26