Summary of Variational Inference in Location-scale Families: Exact Recovery Of the Mean and Correlation Matrix, by Charles C. Margossian and Lawrence K. Saul
Variational Inference in Location-Scale Families: Exact Recovery of the Mean and Correlation Matrix
by Charles C. Margossian, Lawrence K. Saul
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation (stat.CO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel paper investigates the robustness of variational inference (VI) to misspecifications when modeling target densities with certain symmetries. The authors analyze the performance of VI when the tractable family is a location-scale family that shares these symmetries, and prove strong guarantees for recovering the mean and correlation matrix under even and elliptical symmetry assumptions. These findings have implications for Bayesian inference in various regimes where these symmetries are useful idealizations. The paper’s results demonstrate the robustness of VI to misspecifications, making it a valuable contribution to the field of variational inference. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary VI is a powerful tool for approximating complex target densities. This new research explores how well VI works when the density has certain symmetries. The authors show that if the symmetry is even or elliptical, VI can still recover important features like the mean and correlation matrix, even if the model is misspecified. This is great news for people using VI in Bayesian inference. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bayesian inference » Inference
