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gradient estimator

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variance reduction (523) variational inference (2069) stochastic optimization (1060) generative model (2892) gradient estimation (150) stochastic gradient (296) discrete latent variable (43) control variate (54) stochastic gradient descent (1091) evidence lower bound (68)

Papers

Implicit Reparameterization Gradients NIPS 2018
Total stochastic gradient algorithms and applications in reinforcement learning NIPS 2018
Variational Rejection Sampling AISTATS 2018
Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better ICML 2018
Evaluating the Variance of Likelihood-Ratio Gradient Estimators ICML 2017
An Optimal Algorithm for Bandit and Zero-Order Convex Optimization with Two-Point Feedback JMLR 2017
Sticking the Landing: Simple, Lower-Variance Gradient Estimators for Variational Inference NIPS 2017
REBAR: Low-variance, unbiased gradient estimates for discrete latent variable models NIPS 2017
Variational Inference for Monte Carlo Objectives ICML 2016