Approximate inference methods make it possible to learn realistic models from big data by trading off computation time for accuracy, when exact learning and inference are computationally intractable.
Major methods classes
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editReferences
edit- ^ "Approximate Inference and Constrained Optimization". Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence - UAI: 313–320. 2003.
- ^ "Approximate Inference". Retrieved 2013-07-15.
External links
edit- Tom Minka, Microsoft Research (Nov 2, 2009). "Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS), Cambridge 2009, Approximate Inference" (video lecture).