[AIRG] AIRG on Wednesday: Variational Inference

[DAVID MERRELL <dmerrell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi AIRG,

In this week's AIRG, I'll lead a discussion about this 2017 paper by David Blei et al:

"Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians"

https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2017.1285773

You don't need to be a statistician to enjoy this paper!

Variational inference reformulates Bayesian inference as an optimization problem.

It's gained widespread use in the world of Bayesian computing and probabilistic programming.

It's definitely worth your while to know something about this!

See you there at 4:00pm Wednesday, 4310 CS.

David Merrell