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Hazal Koptagel

2 accepted papers

2022

Multiple Importance Sampling ELBO and Deep Ensembles of Variational Approximations

AISTATS 2022poster

In variational inference (VI), the marginal log-likelihood is estimated using the standard evidence lower bound (ELBO), or improved versions as the importance weighted ELBO (IWELBO). We propose the multiple importance sampling ELBO (MISELBO), a versatile yet simple framework. MISELBO is applicable i…

2022

VaiPhy: a Variational Inference Based Algorithm for Phylogeny

NeurIPS 2022accept

Phylogenetics is a classical methodology in computational biology that today has become highly relevant for medical investigation of single-cell data, e.g., in the context of development of cancer. The exponential size of the tree space is unfortunately a formidable obstacle for current Bayesian ph…