Challenges and Opportunities in High-dimensional Variational Inference

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Challenges and Opportunities in High-dimensional Variational Inference

1 March 2021

Akash Kumar Dhaka

Alejandro Catalina

Manushi K. V. Welandawe

Michael Riis Andersen

Jonathan H. Huggins

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FlowVAT: Normalizing Flow Variational Inference with Affine-Invariant Tempering Juehang Qin Shixiao Liang C. Tunnell TPM 86 1 0 15 May 2025
Variational Inference in Location-Scale Families: Exact Recovery of the Mean and Correlation Matrix C. Margossian Lawrence K. Saul 94 2 0 14 Oct 2024
SoftCVI: Contrastive variational inference with self-generated soft labels Daniel Ward Mark Beaumont Matteo Fasiolo BDL 233 1 0 22 Jul 2024
Variational Inference for Uncertainty Quantification: an Analysis of Trade-offs C. Margossian Loucas Pillaud-Vivien Lawrence K. Saul UD 158 2 0 20 Mar 2024
Rethinking Variational Inference for Probabilistic Programs with Stochastic Support Tim Reichelt C. Ong Tom Rainforth 65 2 0 01 Nov 2023
Enhanced Sampling with Machine Learning: A Review S. Mehdi Zachary Smith Lukas Herron Ziyue Zou P. Tiwary AI4CE 52 8 0 15 Jun 2023
On the Convergence of Black-Box Variational Inference Kyurae Kim Jisu Oh Kaiwen Wu Yi-An Ma Jacob R. Gardner BDL 94 17 0 24 May 2023
Alpha-divergence Variational Inference Meets Importance Weighted Auto-Encoders: Methodology and Asymptotics Kamélia Daudel Joe Benton Yuyang Shi Arnaud Doucet DRL 76 11 0 12 Oct 2022
Gradients should stay on Path: Better Estimators of the Reverse- and Forward KL Divergence for Normalizing Flows Lorenz Vaitl K. Nicoli Shinichi Nakajima Pan Kessel 100 26 0 17 Jul 2022
Markov Chain Score Ascent: A Unifying Framework of Variational Inference with Markovian Gradients Kyurae Kim Jisu Oh Jacob R. Gardner Adji Bousso Dieng Hongseok Kim BDL 89 8 0 13 Jun 2022
Pathfinder: Parallel quasi-Newton variational inference Lu Zhang Bob Carpenter A. Gelman Aki Vehtari 134 41 0 09 Aug 2021
Mixture weights optimisation for Alpha-Divergence Variational Inference Kamélia Daudel Randal Douc 84 9 0 09 Jun 2021
Pareto Smoothed Importance Sampling Aki Vehtari Daniel Simpson Andrew Gelman Yuling Yao Jonah Gabry 145 242 0 09 Jul 2015