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Robert Scheichl

2 accepted papers

2021

HINT: Hierarchical Invertible Neural Transport for Density Estimation and Bayesian Inference

AAAI 2021technical

Many recent invertible neural architectures are based on coupling block designs where variables are divided in two subsets which serve as inputs of an easily invertible (usually affine) triangular transformation. While such a transformation is invertible, its Jacobian is very sparse and thus may lac…

2018

A Stein variational Newton method

NeurIPS 2018poster

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) was recently proposed as a general purpose nonparametric variational inference algorithm: it minimizes the Kullback–Leibler divergence between the target distribution and its approximation by implementing a form of functional gradient descent on a reproducin…