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Proceedings/Recueil Des Communications Année : 2019

Copula-like Variational Inference

Marcel Hirt
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Petros Dellaportas
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

This paper considers a new family of variational distributions motivated by Sklar's theorem. This family is based on new copula-like densities on the hypercube with non-uniform marginals which can be sampled efficiently, i.e. with a complexity linear in the dimension of state space. Then, the proposed variational densities that we suggest can be seen as arising from these copula-like densities used as base distributions on the hypercube with Gaussian quantile functions and sparse rotation matrices as normalizing flows. The latter correspond to a rotation of the marginals with complexity $\mathcal{O}(d \log d)$. We provide some empirical evidence that such a variational family can also approximate non-Gaussian posteriors and can be beneficial compared to Gaussian approximations. Our method performs largely comparably to state-of-the-art variational approximations on standard regression and classification benchmarks for Bayesian Neural Networks.

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hal-04396849 , version 1 (16-01-2024)

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Marcel Hirt, Petros Dellaportas, Alain Durmus. Copula-like Variational Inference. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2019. ⟨hal-04396849⟩
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