Bayesian inference and modeling


Semi-Implicit Variational Inference
Mingzhang Yin, Mingyuan Zhou
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long talk. pdf, slides, poster, code and talk

Convergence of Gradient EM on Multi-component Mixture of Gaussians
Bowei Yan, Mingzhang Yin, and Purnamrita Sarkar
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). pdf, code and poster

ARM: Augment-REINFORCE-Merge Gradient for Stochastic Binary Networks
Mingzhang Yin, Mingyuan Zhou
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Top 10%. pdf, code and slides

A Theoretical Case Study of Structured Variational Inference for Community Detection
Mingzhang Yin, Y. X. Rachel Wang, Purnamrita Sarkar
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS). pdf, slides

Meta-Learning without Memorization
Mingzhang Yin, George Tucker, Mingyuan Zhou, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight, Top 5%. Short version in Meta-Learning Workshop, (NeurIPS MetaLearn). pdf, blog, code, poster, slides1, talk1, slides2, talk2