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A General Method for Amortizing Variational Filtering

Marino, Joseph and Cvitkovic, Milan and Yue, Yisong (2018) A General Method for Amortizing Variational Filtering. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NIPS 2018). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. No.31. Curran Associates , Red Hook, NY, pp. 1-12. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190205-101451102

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Abstract

We introduce the variational filtering EM algorithm, a simple, general-purpose method for performing variational inference in dynamical latent variable models using information from only past and present variables, i.e. filtering. The algorithm is derived from the variational objective in the filtering setting and consists of an optimization procedure at each time step. By performing each inference optimization procedure with an iterative amortized inference model, we obtain a computationally efficient implementation of the algorithm, which we call amortized variational filtering. We present experiments demonstrating that this general-purpose method improves performance across several deep dynamical latent variable models.


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Marino, Joseph0000-0001-6387-8062
Yue, Yisong0000-0001-9127-1989
Additional Information:© 2018 Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, Inc. We would like to thank Matteo Ruggero Ronchi for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the following grants: JPL PDF 1584398, NSF 1564330, and NSF 1637598.
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JPL President and Director's Fund1584398
NSFIIS-1564330
NSFCCF-1637598
Series Name:Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
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