Herded Gibbs and discretized herded Gibbs sampling

Statistical inference is at the heart of the probabilistic programming approach to artificial intelligence; as far as statistical inference is concerned, the Gibbs sampler is one of the most widely applicable and popular random sampling techniques. On the flip side, deterministic sampling is still...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eskelinen, Mareija
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44896