1 code implementation • 6 Jun 2019 • Rob Donnelly, Francisco R. Ruiz, David Blei, Susan Athey
One source of the improvement is the ability of the model to accurately estimate heterogeneity in preferences (by pooling information across categories); another source of improvement is its ability to estimate the preferences of consumers who have rarely or never made a purchase in a given category in the training data.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2016 • Francisco R. Ruiz, Michalis Titsias Rc Aueb, David Blei
The reparameterization gradient has become a widely used method to obtain Monte Carlo gradients to optimize the variational objective.