Although there is much recent work developing flexible variational methods for Bayesian computation, Gaussian approximations with structured covariance matrices are often preferred computationally ...

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具有偏斜正态可分解图形模型和隐式联结的结构化变分近似

尽管最近有很多工作为贝叶斯计算开发灵活的变分方法，但具有结构化协方差矩阵的高斯近似在计算上通常是首选......