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Poster
Streaming Variational Bayes
Tamara Broderick · Nicholas Boyd · Andre Wibisono · Ashia C Wilson · Michael Jordan

Thu Dec 05 07:00 PM -- 11:59 PM (PST) @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor

We present SDA-Bayes, a framework for (S)treaming, (D)istributed, (A)synchronous computation of a Bayesian posterior. The framework makes streaming updates to the estimated posterior according to a user-specified approximation primitive function. We demonstrate the usefulness of our framework, with variational Bayes (VB) as the primitive, by fitting the latent Dirichlet allocation model to two large-scale document collections. We demonstrate the advantages of our algorithm over stochastic variational inference (SVI), both in the single-pass setting SVI was designed for and in the streaming setting, to which SVI does not apply.

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Tamara Broderick (MIT)
Nicholas Boyd (UC Berkeley)
Andre Wibisono (Georgia Tech)
Ashia C Wilson (UC Berkeley)
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)

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