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Herding dynamical weights to learn

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Herding dynamical weights to learn
A new "herding" algorithm is proposed which directly converts observed moments into a sequence of pseudo-samples. The pseudosamples respect the moment constraints and may be used to estimate (unobserved) quantities of interest. The procedure allows us to sidestep the usual approach of first learning a joint model (which is intractable) and then sampling from that model (which can easily get stuck in a local mode). Moreover, the algorithm is fully deterministic, avoiding random number generation) and does not need expensive operations such as exponentiation.
Max Welling
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Updated 17 Nov 2009
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICML
Authors Max Welling
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