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Variational Inference and Model Selection with Generalized Evidence Bounds
Liqun Chen · Chenyang Tao · RUIYI (ROY) ZHANG · Ricardo Henao · Lawrence Carin
Recent advances on the scalability and flexibility of variational inference have made it successful at unravelling hidden patterns in complex data. In this work we propose a new variational bound formulation, yielding an estimator that extends beyond the conventional variational bound. It naturally subsumes the importance-weighted and Renyi bounds as special cases, and it is provably sharper than these counterparts. We also present an improved estimator for variational learning, and advocate a novel high signal-to-variance ratio update rule for the variational parameters. We discuss model-selection issues associated with existing evidence-lower-bound-based variational inference procedures, and show how to leverage the flexibility of our new formulation to address them. Empirical evidence is provided to validate our claims.
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Liqun Chen (Duke University)
Chenyang Tao (Duke University)
RUIYI (ROY) ZHANG (Duke University)
Ricardo Henao (Duke University)
Lawrence Carin (Duke)
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