Variational Posterior Approximation

Variational Posterior Approximation is a methodological framework in Bayesian inference that approximates the intractable posterior distribution by optimizing a simpler, parametric distribution to minimize the divergence from the true posterior.

204

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21.8K

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450

Authors

179

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2017–2026

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204

Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians

Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2017 · 3.7K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Machine Learning +16

fastSTRUCTURE: Variational Inference of Population Structure in Large SNP Data Sets

Anil Raj, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan K. Pritchard · Genetics · 2014 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Genetics +17

Stochastic variational inference

Matthew D. Hoffman, David M. Blei, Chong Wang et al. · Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2013 · 1.5K citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics +17

Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows

Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Shakir Mohamed · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Data Science, Bayesian Data Analysis +16

A Simple New Approach to Variable Selection in Regression, with Application to Genetic Fine Mapping

Gao Wang, Abhishek Sarkar, Peter Carbonetto et al. · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 2020 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Computing, Biostatistics, Bayesian Biostatistics +16

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Authors

450

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David M. Blei
Princeton University, United States
16 publications · 2.2K citations
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Rafael Molina
Universidad de Granada, Spain
10 publications · 882 citations
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Max Welling
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 publications · 1.3K citations
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Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Northwestern University, United States
10 publications · 882 citations
10
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Rajesh Ranganath
Princeton University, United States
8 publications · 339 citations
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Institutions

179

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Venues

arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 76 publications · 5.8K citations
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Neural Information Processing Systems
Conference · 11 publications · 939 citations
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IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
7 publications · 365 citations
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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
5 publications · 684 citations
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TPAMI · 4 publications · 800 citations
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