Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference

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• David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)
• Monday 25 June 2012, 14:30-17:00
• Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Emli-Mari Nel.

Lecture 13 & 14 of a lecture series on Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn_lectures/

Topics include:

• Slice sampling,
• Hybrid Monte Carlo,
• Over-relaxation,
• Exact Sampling,
• Variational methods.

Schedule:

• Two 40-60 minute lectures, with a 15 minute break in between.

All are welcome, and encouraged to ask many questions.

This talk is part of the Inference Group series.

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