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Variational inference by Chieh Wu in 2015

variational inference

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Concepts

information \[I = * \log ( p )\]

entropy \[H[p] = \sum_x p(x) \log(p(x))\]

differential entropy \[H[p] = \int_x p(x) \log(p(x)) dx\]

KL divergence \[KL[p || q] = \]

Lectures

  1. 23:55 Variational Inference tutorial series Part 1 (Basic Information Theory )
  2. 28:01 variational inference part 2 ( KL divergence )
  3. 10:06 variational inference Part 3 ( Purpose of variational inference ) progress indicators
  4. 18:26 variational inference Part 4 ( Derivation 1 )
  5. 19:25 variational inference Part 5 ( Derivation 2

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