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Variational Bayes algorithm with given noise #12

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TTitscher opened this issue Feb 13, 2021 · 1 comment
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Variational Bayes algorithm with given noise #12

TTitscher opened this issue Feb 13, 2021 · 1 comment

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The current implementation always infers the noise. The option to not do that and instead provide a determinstic noise-sigma (as common in likelihood functions) is missing.

IMO this could be implemented by just skipping the update equations 21-22 (or 30-31 for multiple noises). Then, in the remaining update equations, the noise is only used as "scale x shape" which corresponds to the mean of this distribution, which could be provided instead.

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  • Are my thoughts correct?
  • The free energy terms include the noise shape and noise scale separately. How to handle that?
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We need other update equations!

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