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2 Inference / Sampling committee: JB, GD, AC
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1 OVERVIEW 4 OVERVIEW
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4 Before we start defining what a sampler is and how it should be defined in 7 Before we start defining what a sampler is and how it should be defined in
5 pylearn, we should first know what we're up against. 8 pylearn, we should first know what we're up against.
34 * Metropolis Hastings 37 * Metropolis Hastings
35 * Slice Sampling 38 * Slice Sampling
36 * Annealing 39 * Annealing
37 * Parallel Tempering, Tempered Transitions, Simulated Tempering 40 * Parallel Tempering, Tempered Transitions, Simulated Tempering
38 * Nested Sampling (?) 41 * Nested Sampling (?)
39 * Hamiltonian Monte Carlo 42 * Hamiltonian Monte Carlo --> or is it Hybrid Monte Carlo?
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44 3. USAGE PATTERNS
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47 * MCMC methods have a usage pattern that is quite different from the kind of univariate sampling methods
48 needed for nice-and-easy parametric families.
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