Sticking the Landing: Simple, Lower-Variance Gradient Estimators for Variational Inference

Geoffrey Roeder, Yuhuai Wu, David K. Duvenaud. Sticking the Landing: Simple, Lower-Variance Gradient Estimators for Variational Inference. In Isabelle Guyon, Ulrike von Luxburg, Samy Bengio, Hanna M. Wallach, Rob Fergus, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Roman Garnett, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2017, 4-9 December 2017, Long Beach, CA, USA. pages 6928-6937, 2017. [doi]

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