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Neural Density Estimation and Likelihood-free Inference

Machine Learning 2019-10-30 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

I consider two problems in machine learning and statistics: the problem of estimating the joint probability density of a collection of random variables, known as density estimation, and the problem of inferring model parameters when their likelihood is intractable, known as likelihood-free inference. The contribution of the thesis is a set of new methods for addressing these problems that are based on recent advances in neural networks and deep learning.

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@article{arxiv.1910.13233,
  title  = {Neural Density Estimation and Likelihood-free Inference},
  author = {George Papamakarios},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13233},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

PhD thesis submitted to the University of Edinburgh in April 2019. Includes in full the following articles: arXiv:1605.06376, arXiv:1705.07057, arXiv:1805.07226

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