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Multilevel Monte Carlo estimation of log marginal likelihood

Machine Learning 2019-12-24 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this short note we provide an unbiased multilevel Monte Carlo estimator of the log marginal likelihood and discuss its application to variational Bayes.

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@article{arxiv.1912.10636,
  title  = {Multilevel Monte Carlo estimation of log marginal likelihood},
  author = {Takashi Goda and Kei Ishikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10636},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

4 pages, no figure, technical report