Quantum Annealing for Variational Bayes Inference
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-05-28 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Machine Learning
Quantum Physics
Abstract
This paper presents studies on a deterministic annealing algorithm based on quantum annealing for variational Bayes (QAVB) inference, which can be seen as an extension of the simulated annealing for variational Bayes (SAVB) inference. QAVB is as easy as SAVB to implement. Experiments revealed QAVB finds a better local optimum than SAVB in terms of the variational free energy in latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0905.3528,
title = {Quantum Annealing for Variational Bayes Inference},
author = {Issei Sato and Kenichi Kurihara and Shu Tanaka and Hiroshi Nakagawa and Seiji Miyashita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3528},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2009) accepted