Minimal variations guide unsupervised learning for better downstream tasks.
problem Efficiently describing raw data for various future tasks.
method Minimal variations as a guiding principle for unsupervised representation learning.
result Unveiling minimal variations as a principle behind unsupervised learning.
Quantum neural tangent kernels help understand variational quantum circuits in machine learning.
problem Designing and predicting performance of variational quantum circuits.
method Using quantum neural tangent kernels and dynamical equations for loss functions.
result Analytical solutions for training dynamics in variational quantum circuits.
Automates VI divergence selection for efficient few-shot learning.
problem Efficiently selecting divergence measures for VI to improve performance.
method Meta-learning algorithm to learn optimal divergence metric and variational parameter initialization.
result Meta-learning approach outperforms standard VI methods across various tasks.
We introduce the thermodynamic variational objective (TVO) for learning in both continuous and discrete deep generative models. The TVO arises from a key connection between variational inference and thermodynamic integration that results in a tighter lower bound to the log marginal likelihood than the standard variatio…
EVCL combines VCL and EWC to prevent forgetting new tasks.
problem Preventing catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
method Hybrid model integrating VCL and EWC.
result Consistently outperforms baselines in learning new tasks.
A new meta-learning method using shared variational inference.
problem Meta-learning with uncertainty over model parameters.
method Shared amortized variational inference network for conditional prior and posterior.
result Prevents collapse of conditional prior to Dirac delta function.
SFSVI uses Gaussian mixtures to approximate neural network outputs for continual learning.
problem Learning new tasks without forgetting old ones in neural networks.
method Sequential function-space variational inference with Gaussian mixture approximation.
result Gaussian mixture SFSVI outperforms other methods in continual learning.
Advances variational Bayesian neural networks using singular learning theory.
problem Discrepancies between predictive performance and variational objective in BNNs.
method Corrected asymptotic form of singular posterior distributions to inform variational family design.
result Improvements in variational free energy and generalization error with proposed normalizing flow.
Quantum variational circuits improve reinforcement learning efficiency.
problem Improving reinforcement learning algorithms using quantum computing.
method Investigation of quantum variational circuits for DQN and Double DQN, encoding classical data for quantum circuits.
result Quantum variational circuits can solve reinforcement learning tasks with a smaller parameter space.
Efficiently estimates online variational learning using importance sampling.
problem Online variational estimation in state-space models.
method Variational approach with Monte Carlo importance sampling.
result Proposed efficient algorithm for streaming data.
The paper learns pose variations within shape populations using constrained mixtures of factor analyzers.
problem Learning pose variations within a shape population with articulated parts and relative rotations.
method Formulated as mixtures of factor analyzers, segmentation by component posterior probabilities, and constraints on factor loading matrices for rotation matrices.
result Automatic learning of pose variations from shape populations, resulting in smooth and realistic animations.
Paper develops efficient variational inference for sparse deep learning with theoretical guarantees.
problem Sparse deep learning's challenge of huge storage consumption and sparse structure recovery.
method Bayesian treatment with spike-and-slab priors and continuous relaxation of Bernoulli distribution for computationally efficient variational inferences.
result Provides variational posterior contraction rate, justifying consistency of the proposed method.
This paper learns variational models and solvers for inverse problems from incomplete data.
problem Solving inverse problems with partially observed data.
method Joint learning of variational cost and gradient-based solver as neural networks.
result Joint learning leads to improved reconstruction performance.
This work proposes using zero-variance control variates to reduce variance in pathwise gradient estimators for variational inference.
problem Pathwise gradient estimators in variational inference have high variance, leading to inefficient optimization.
method Apply zero-variance control variates to pathwise gradient estimators.
result Zero-variance control variates can significantly reduce the variance of pathwise gradient estimators without requiring complex assumptions.
IVON optimizes large neural networks, matching or outperforming Adam.
problem The inefficacy of variational learning in large neural networks.
method Improved Variational Online Newton (IVON) optimizer.
result IVON consistently matches or outperforms Adam for large networks.
Efficiently learns from partial labels using variational inference.
problem Learning from noisy and ambiguous partial labels in crowdsourcing.
method Amortized variational inference for probabilistic posterior approximation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in accuracy and efficiency.
A new method for privacy-preserving Bayesian learning in federated learning.
problem Privacy-preserving learning of models from distributed sensitive data.
method Differentially private partitioned variational inference (DPVI) for federated learning.
result First general framework for federated Bayesian learning with differential privacy.
Proposes a new method for continual learning in neural networks.
problem Challenges in applying sequential Bayesian inference to neural networks.
method Sequential function-space variational inference.
result Neural networks trained with the proposed method achieve better predictive accuracy.
Adaptive variational Bayes framework improves inference adaptively.
problem Lack of general and computationally tractable variational Bayes method for adaptive inference.
method Proposes a novel adaptive variational Bayes framework combining variational posteriors over individual models.
result Adaptive variational Bayes achieves optimal contraction rates adaptively under general conditions.
Variational Bayesian neural nets combine the flexibility of deep learning with Bayesian uncertainty estimation. Unfortunately, there is a tradeoff between cheap but simple variational families (e.g.~fully factorized) or expensive and complicated inference procedures. We show that natural gradient ascent with adaptive w…
Improved continual learning method using variational inference and FiLM layers.
problem Training models on new tasks and datasets in an online fashion.
method Generalized Variational Continual Learning (GVCL) with likelihood-tempering and FiLM layers.
result GVCL outperforms existing baselines in both small and large datasets, providing better calibration.
Improved variational inference for logistic regression and classification.
problem Intractability of Evidence Lower Bound in variational logistic regression.
method Introducing a new bound for the expectation of softplus function, applied to variational logistic regression and Gaussian process classification.
result The new bound results in a tighter posterior and faster computation compared to Monte-Carlo methods.
Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have been widely applied for learning compact, low-dimensional latent representations of high-dimensional data. When the correlation structure among data points is available, previous work proposed Correlated Variational Auto-Encoders (CVAEs), which employ a structured mixture model as …
Despite the advances in the representational capacity of approximate distributions for variational inference, the optimization process can still limit the density that is ultimately learned. We demonstrate the drawbacks of biasing the true posterior to be unimodal, and introduce Annealed Variational Objectives (AVO) in…
Online method for state estimation and parameter learning in SSMs.
problem State estimation and parameter learning in state-space models.
method Stochastic gradient optimization of variational lower bound, using backward decompositions and Bellman recursions.
result Ability to operate online without revisiting historic observations.
This paper combines three techniques to reduce communications in distributed variational inequalities.
problem Efficiently communicating solutions in large-scale distributed variational inequalities.
method Combining similarity, compression, and local steps to reduce communication rounds and cost.
result Best theoretical guarantees of communication complexity and superior performance in adversarial learning experiments.
State-space models have been successfully used for more than fifty years in different areas of science and engineering. We present a procedure for efficient variational Bayesian learning of nonlinear state-space models based on sparse Gaussian processes. The result of learning is a tractable posterior over nonlinear dy…
Variational autoencoders provide a principled framework for learning deep latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. In this work, we provide an introduction to variational autoencoders and some important extensions.
Variational Inference shows promise for Bayesian GARCH model estimation.
problem Bayesian estimation of GARCH-family models using Monte Carlo sampling.
method Variational Inference as an alternative to Monte Carlo sampling.
result Variational Inference is a reliable and competitive method for Bayesian learning in GARCH-like models.
The paper compares unrolling and bilevel optimization for learning variational models.
problem Learning variational models in supervised learning.
method Analyzes unrolling and bilevel optimization approaches for variational models.
result Unrolling can be better than bilevel optimization, but performance depends on parameters.
Variational Prediction simplifies Bayesian inference without test time costs.
problem Bayesian inference's computational costs and posterior predictive distribution marginalization.
method Variational Prediction learns a variational approximation to the posterior predictive distribution using a variational bound.
result Directly learns a variational approximation to the posterior predictive distribution without test time marginalization costs.
NVA combines variational posteriors, annealing, and natural-gradient learning for multimodal optimization.
problem Finding multiple global and local modes in nonconvex objectives.
method NVA integrates variational posteriors, annealing, and natural-gradient learning.
result NVA outperforms gradient descent and evolution strategies on simulations and real-world problems.
Quantum model improves safety in machine learning.
problem Improving safety and robustness in machine learning models.
method Variational quantum classifier with amplitude encoding and SAFE-AI metrics.
result Quantum model provides competitive performance and improved robustness.
VANO uses neural operators for unsupervised learning of functional data.
problem Learning operators between infinite dimensional spaces for functional data.
method Variational Autoencoding Neural Operators (VANO) approach.
result VANO can learn and reconstruct functional data without supervision.
AutoBayes automates Bayesian graph exploration for robust machine learning.
problem Learning representations invariant to nuisance variations in machine learning.
method Automated Bayesian inference framework exploring different graphical models.
result Significant performance improvement with nuisance-invariant machine learning pipelines.
New algorithms accelerate SVGD convergence using deep unfolding.
problem Improving the speed of SVGD convergence.
method Integrating deep unfolding into SVGD for parameter learning.
result Proposed algorithms achieve faster convergence in various tasks.
The abstract discusses extending learning objectives to measure theory for better generalization.
problem Improving out-of-distribution generalization and weakly-supervised learning.
method Extending variational learning objectives to measures.
result New objectives on measures may lead to practical algorithms.
This paper develops variational continual learning (VCL), a simple but general framework for continual learning that fuses online variational inference (VI) and recent advances in Monte Carlo VI for neural networks. The framework can successfully train both deep discriminative models and deep generative models in compl…
Variational inference is a powerful tool for approximate inference, and it has been recently applied for representation learning with deep generative models. We develop the variational Gaussian process (VGP), a Bayesian nonparametric variational family, which adapts its shape to match complex posterior distributions. T…
VPP learns joint policies for multi-agent RL through interactions.
problem Learning effective joint policies for multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method VPP integrates variational inference into policy layers for efficient sampling and differentiability.
result VPP outperforms previous methods on large-scale multi-agent tasks.
Aiming at a comprehensive and concise tutorial survey, recap of variational inference and reinforcement learning with Probabilistic Graphical Models are given with detailed derivations. Reviews and comparisons on recent advances in deep reinforcement learning are made from various aspects. We offer detailed derivations…
Bayes-CATSI uses variational Bayesian deep learning for medical time series data imputation.
problem Missing values in medical time series data.
method Bayes-CATSI integrates variational inference for uncertainty quantification and context-aware imputation.
result Bayes-CATSI outperforms CATSI by 9.57% in imputation performance.
New method tightens variational representations of divergences for faster learning.
problem Improving tightness of variational representations of divergences for faster statistical estimation.
method Improved objective functionals constructed via an auxiliary optimization problem, leveraging neural network approximation.
result Tighter variational representations can result in significantly faster learning and more accurate estimation of divergences.
vsOED optimizes experiment design with reinforcement learning for Bayesian models.
problem Optimizing the sequence of experiments in Bayesian models for efficient data collection.
method Reinforcement learning with variational posterior approximations to optimize design policy.
result vsOED achieves superior sample efficiency compared to existing methods.
p3VAE combines physics and machine learning for robust data representations.
problem Improving machine learning models' robustness to environmental factors of variation.
method Physics-informed variational autoencoder integrating physical knowledge with neural networks.
result p3VAE outperforms competing models in extrapolation and interpretability. This paper bridges statistical and machine learning approaches to variational inference.
problem Statisticians struggle to understand variational inference from a Frequentist perspective.
method Explains VI, VAEs, and DDMs from a Frequentist viewpoint, starting with EM.
result VI emerges as a scalable solution for intractable E-steps in VAEs and DDMs.
Learning binary classifiers only from positive and unlabeled (PU) data is an important and challenging task in many real-world applications, including web text classification, disease gene identification and fraud detection, where negative samples are difficult to verify experimentally. Most recent PU learning methods …
DisCoPyro combines category theory with machine learning for program learning.
problem Applying category theory to machine learning tasks.
method Introducing DisCoPyro, a framework combining categorical structures with amortized variational inference.
result DisCoPyro can be applied in program learning for variational autoencoders and potentially contributes to AGI.