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Deterministic Latent Variable Models and Their Pitfalls
We derive a number of well known deterministic latent variable models such as PCA, ICA, EPCA, NMF and PLSA as variational EM approximations with point posteriors. We show that the...
Max Welling, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Nathan Sutter