1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2022 • Alexander K. Lew, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Vikash K. Mansinghka
A key design constraint when implementing Monte Carlo and variational inference algorithms is that it must be possible to cheaply and exactly evaluate the marginal densities of proposal distributions and variational families.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2022 • Feras A. Saad, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Vikash K. Mansinghka
Estimating information-theoretic quantities such as entropy and mutual information is central to many problems in statistics and machine learning, but challenging in high dimensions.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Nishad Gothoskar, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Ben Zinberg, Matin Ghavamizadeh, Falk Pollok, Austin Garrett, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Dan Gutfreund, Vikash K. Mansinghka
We present 3DP3, a framework for inverse graphics that uses inference in a structured generative model of objects, scenes, and images.
no code implementations • pproximateinference AABI Symposium 2021 • George Matheos, Alexander K. Lew, Matin Ghavamizadeh, Stuart Russell, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Vikash Mansinghka
Open-universe probabilistic models enable Bayesian inference about how many objects underlie data, and how they are related.
2 code implementations • 20 Jul 2020 • Marco Cusumano-Towner, Alexander K. Lew, Vikash K. Mansinghka
Involutive MCMC is a unifying mathematical construction for MCMC kernels that generalizes many classic and state-of-the-art MCMC algorithms, from reversible jump MCMC to kernels based on deep neural networks.
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