Empirical Evaluation of Biased Methods for Alpha Divergence Minimization

13 May 2021

Papers citing "Empirical Evaluation of Biased Methods for Alpha Divergence Minimization"

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Alpha-divergence Variational Inference Meets Importance Weighted Auto-Encoders: Methodology and Asymptotics Kamélia Daudel Joe Benton Yuyang Shi Arnaud Doucet DRL 19 8 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 61 24 0 17 Jul 2022
Path-Gradient Estimators for Continuous Normalizing Flows Lorenz Vaitl K. Nicoli Shinichi Nakajima Pan Kessel 24 13 0 17 Jun 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 29 8 0 13 Jun 2022
Variational Inference with Locally Enhanced Bounds for Hierarchical Models Tomas Geffner Justin Domke 29 5 0 08 Mar 2022
On the Difficulty of Unbiased Alpha Divergence Minimization Tomas Geffner Justin Domke 58 18 0 19 Oct 2020
Markovian Score Climbing: Variational Inference with KL(p\|\|q) C. A. Naesseth Fredrik Lindsten David M. Blei 118 54 0 23 Mar 2020
MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics Radford M. Neal 185 3,266 0 09 Jun 2012