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MaxEntropy Pursuit Variational Inference

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arxiv 1905.07855 v1 pith:U75GO3OM submitted 2019-05-20 cs.LG stat.ML

classification cs.LGstat.ML
keywords inferenceposteriordistributionvariationalabilityaccuracyapproachapproximate
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One of the core problems in variational inference is a choice of approximate posterior distribution. It is crucial to trade-off between efficient inference with simple families as mean-field models and accuracy of inference. We propose a variant of a greedy approximation of the posterior distribution with tractable base learners. Using Max-Entropy approach, we obtain a well-defined optimization problem. We demonstrate the ability of the method to capture complex multimodal posterior via continual learning setting for neural networks.

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