Tag: implicit
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A Kernel Approach for Semi-implicit Variational Inference
A Kernel Approach for Semi-implicit Variational Inference arXiv:2601.12023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semi-implicit variational inference (SIVI) enhances the expressiveness of variational families through hierarchical semi-implicit distributions, but the intractability of their densities makes standard ELBO-based optimization biased. Recent score-matching approaches to SIVI (SIVI-SM) address this issue via a minimax formulation, at the expense of an…
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Continuous Semi-Implicit Models
Continuous Semi-Implicit Models arXiv:2506.06778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semi-implicit distributions have shown great promise in variational inference and generative modeling. Hierarchical semi-implicit models, which stack multiple semi-implicit layers, enhance the expressiveness of semi-implicit distributions and can be used to accelerate diffusion models given pretrained score networks. However, their sequential training often suffers from slow convergence.…