Structured Semi-Implicit Variational Inference
2019-10-16pproximateinference AABI Symposium 2019Unverified0· sign in to hype
Iuliia Molchanova, Dmitry Molchanov, Novi Quadrianto, Dmitry Vetrov
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In this work we construct flexible joint distributions from low-dimensional conditional semi-implicit distributions. Explicitly defining the structure of the approximation allows to make the variational lower bound tighter, resulting in more accurate inference.