Hybrid variational/Gibbs collapsed inference in topic models

Variational Bayesian inference and (collapsed) Gibbs sampling are the two important classes of inference algorithms for Bayesian networks. Both have their advantages and disadvantages: collapsed Gibbs sampling is unbiased but is also inefficient for large count values and requires averaging over man...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Welling, M, Teh, Y, Kappen, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008