Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling for Probabilistic Programs

<p>Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques rank among current state-of-the-art methods for probabilistic program inference. A drawback of these techniques is that they rely on importance resampling, which results in degenerate particle trajectories and a low effective sample size for vari...

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Main Authors: van de Meent, J, Yang, H, Mansinghka, V, Wood, F
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: 2015