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Workshop
Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference
Francisco Ruiz · Stephan Mandt · Cheng Zhang · James McInerney · James McInerney · Dustin Tran · Dustin Tran · David Blei · Max Welling · Tamara Broderick · Michalis Titsias

Fri Dec 08 08:00 AM -- 06:30 PM (PST) @ Seaside Ballroom
Event URL: http://approximateinference.org »

Approximate inference is key to modern probabilistic modeling. Thanks to the availability of big data, significant computational power, and sophisticated models, machine learning has achieved many breakthroughs in multiple application domains. At the same time, approximate inference becomes critical since exact inference is intractable for most models of interest. Within the field of approximate Bayesian inference, variational and Monte Carlo methods are currently the mainstay techniques. For both methods, there has been considerable progress both on the efficiency and performance.

In this workshop, we encourage submissions advancing approximate inference methods. We are open to a broad scope of methods within the field of Bayesian inference. In addition, we also encourage applications of approximate inference in many domains, such as computational biology, recommender systems, differential privacy, and industry applications.

Author Information

Francisco Ruiz (Columbia University)
Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)
Cheng Zhang (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
James McInerney (Spotify Research)
James McInerney (Spotify)
Dustin Tran (Columbia University & OpenAI)
Dustin Tran (Google Brain)
David Blei (Columbia University)

David Blei is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University, and a member of the Columbia Data Science Institute. His research is in statistical machine learning, involving probabilistic topic models, Bayesian nonparametric methods, and approximate posterior inference algorithms for massive data. He works on a variety of applications, including text, images, music, social networks, user behavior, and scientific data. David has received several awards for his research, including a Sloan Fellowship (2010), Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2011), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2011), Blavatnik Faculty Award (2013), and ACM-Infosys Foundation Award (2013). He is a fellow of the ACM.

Max Welling (University of Amsterdam / Qualcomm AI Research)
Tamara Broderick (MIT)
Michalis Titsias (DeepMind)

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