Bayesian networks with latent variables are characterized and their likelihoods compared.
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Bayesian non-linear latent variable modeling for complex data.
Hierarchical learning models, such as mixture models and Bayesian networks, are widely employed for unsupervised learning tasks, such as clustering analysis. They consist of observable and hidden variables, which represent the given data and their hidden generation process, respectively. It has been pointed out that co…
Bayesian non-parametric model selects latent dimensions automatically.
Improves Bayesian optimisation for engineering design problems with many variables.
We study parameter inference in large-scale latent variable models. We first propose an unified treatment of online inference for latent variable models from a non-canonical exponential family, and draw explicit links between several previously proposed frequentist or Bayesian methods. We then propose a novel inference…
Bayesian Black-Litterman model updated to use market data for latent variables.
A model learns causal representations from high-dimensional data.
We introduce a Bayesian framework for inference with a supervised version of the Gaussian process latent variable model. The framework overcomes the high correlations between latent variables and hyperparameters by using an unbiased pseudo estimate for the marginal likelihood that approximately integrates over the late…
Bayesian network models with latent variables are widely used in statistics and machine learning. In this paper we provide a complete algebraic characterization of Bayesian network models with latent variables when the observed variables are discrete and no assumption is made about the state-space of the latent variabl…
We introduce a Bayesian Gaussian process latent variable model that explicitly captures spatial correlations in data using a parameterized spatial kernel and leveraging structure-exploiting algebra on the model covariance matrices for computational tractability. Inference is made tractable through a collapsed variation…
Bayesian optimization uses shared latent variables for multiple systems.
New method mitigates bias in BNN+LVs due to non-identifiability.
Bayesian neural networks improve uncertainty quantification in non-linear dimensionality reduction.
Paper improves variational inference for complex models.
Unsupervised estimation of latent variable models is a fundamental problem central to numerous applications of machine learning and statistics. This work presents a principled approach for estimating broad classes of such models, including probabilistic topic models and latent linear Bayesian networks, using only secon…
Bayesian model fuses diverse microbiome data types.
Bayesian active learning reduces data needed for latent variable models.
Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) with latent variables are probabilistic models which can automatically identify complex stochastic patterns in the data. We describe and study in these models a decomposition of predictive uncertainty into its epistemic and aleatoric components. First, we show how such a decomposition ar…
Proposes a non-parametric method for deep discrete latent variable models.
Bayesian NMF model improves predictions and avoids overfitting.
Develops fully Bayesian LVGP for better uncertainty quantification.
We present and implement two algorithms for analytic asymptotic evaluation of the marginal likelihood of data given a Bayesian network with hidden nodes. As shown by previous work, this evaluation is particularly hard for latent Bayesian network models, namely networks that include hidden variables, where asymptotic ap…
Unified sampling approach for Bayesian imaging problems.
ACE models allow flexible conditioning and prediction of latent variables.
Bayesian model for multi-environment prediction with latent variable changes.
New method integrates latent variables for Bayesian Optimization of materials with both qualitative and quantitative factors.
Hierarchical probabilistic models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used for unsupervised learning tasks. These models consist of observable and latent variables, which represent the observable data and the underlying data-generation process, respectively. Unsupervised learning tasks, such as cluster analysi…
New neural network approach for optimizing latent variable models.
This paper introduces a general Bayesian non- parametric latent feature model suitable to per- form automatic exploratory analysis of heterogeneous datasets, where the attributes describing each object can be either discrete, continuous or mixed variables. The proposed model presents several important properties. First…
New algorithm tackles big data Bayesian problems with latent variables.
The causal discovery of Bayesian networks is an active and important research area, and it is based upon searching the space of causal models for those which can best explain a pattern of probabilistic dependencies shown in the data. However, some of those dependencies are generated by causal structures involving varia…
Extends VAEs to handle complex Bayesian network structures.
A new estimator improves training of probabilistic models with latent Gaussian variables.
Develops a Bayesian non-parametric approach for signal separation with varying components.
Within a supervised classification framework, labeled data are used to learn classifier parameters. Prior to that, it is generally required to perform dimensionality reduction via feature extraction. These preprocessing steps have motivated numerous research works aiming at recovering latent variables in an unsupervise…
Bayesian methods enhance deep learning models by improving reliability and uncertainty.
We propose a family of novel hierarchical Bayesian deep auto-encoder models capable of identifying disentangled factors of variability in data. While many recent attempts at factor disentanglement have focused on sophisticated learning objectives within the VAE framework, their choice of a standard normal as the latent…
Study analyzes Bayesian inference algorithms using dynamical functional approach.
A new method maps high-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems to lower dimensions.
In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by some causal structure. This corresponds to a family of graphical models known as the structural equation model with latent variables. While …
In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by some causal structure. This corresponds to a family of graphical models known as the structural equation model with latent variables. While …
CCHM algorithm learns BN structure with latent variables, improving causal effect measurement.
We introduce a methodology for nonlinear inverse problems using a variational Bayesian approach where the unknown quantity is a spatial field. A structured Bayesian Gaussian process latent variable model is used both to construct a low-dimensional generative model of the sample-based stochastic prior as well as a surro…
A scalable GPLVM model using stochastic variational inference.
Current methods for learning graphical models with latent variables and a fixed structure estimate optimal values for the model parameters. Whereas this approach usually produces overfitting and suboptimal generalization performance, carrying out the Bayesian program of computing the full posterior distributions over t…
We present a non-parametric Bayesian latent variable model capable of learning dependency structures across dimensions in a multivariate setting. Our approach is based on flexible Gaussian process priors for the generative mappings and interchangeable Dirichlet process priors to learn the structure. The introduction of…
Using the linear Gaussian latent variable model as a starting point we relax some of the constraints it imposes by deriving a nonparametric latent feature Gaussian variable model. This model introduces additional discrete latent variables to the original structure. The Bayesian nonparametric nature of this new model al…