Mercurial > pylearn

diff doc/v2_planning/sampler.txt @ 1027:a1b6ccd5b6dc

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
few comments added
author Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:57:22 -0400
parents 790376d986a3
children 875d53754bd0
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/doc/v2_planning/sampler.txt	Fri Sep 03 18:30:21 2010 -0400
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/sampler.txt	Fri Sep 03 21:57:22 2010 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+
+Inference / Sampling committee: JB, GD, AC
+
 OVERVIEW
 ========
 
@@ -36,4 +39,12 @@
 * Annealing
 * Parallel Tempering, Tempered Transitions, Simulated Tempering
 * Nested Sampling (?)
-* Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
+* Hamiltonian Monte Carlo --> or is it Hybrid Monte Carlo?
+
+3. USAGE PATTERNS
+=================
+
+* MCMC methods have a usage pattern that is quite different from the kind of univariate sampling methods
+needed for nice-and-easy parametric families. 
+
+