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Workshop: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better! Bridging the gap between theory and empiricism in probabilistic machine learning

Invited Talk: Andrew Gelman - It Doesn’t Work, But The Alternative Is Even Worse: Living With Approximate Computation

Andrew Gelman


Abstract:

We can’t fit the models we want to fit because it takes too long to fit them on our computer. Also, we don’t know what models we want to fit until we try a few. I share some stories of struggles with data-partitioning and parameter-partitioning algorithms, what kinda worked and what didn’t.