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better documentation for nuance: minimization/maximization of ELBO #171

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akucukelbir opened this issue Jul 13, 2016 · 0 comments
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better documentation for nuance: minimization/maximization of ELBO #171

akucukelbir opened this issue Jul 13, 2016 · 0 comments

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this came up in the 2016-07-12 meeting.

tensorflow provides loss minimization routines.

variational inference maximizes an objective function.

we use the word loss in perhaps confusing ways for both.
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