Sessions Were Renumbered as of May 19.
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H = Hilton Chicago,
UC = Conference Chicago at University Center
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673
Thu, 8/4/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W192b
Accelerating Bayesian Computation by Intersecting Monte Carlo and Optimization — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society
Organizer(s): Luke Bornn, Simon Fraser University, Mathieu Gerber, Harvard
Chair(s): Iavor Bojinov, Harvard
10:35 AM
Diversifying Sparsity Using Variational Determinantal Point Processes
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Kayhan Batmanghelich, MIT
11:05 AM
Coupling of Particle Filters with Applications to Score and Smoothing Estimators
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Pierre E. Jacob, Harvard ; Fredrik Lindsten, Uppsala University ; Thomas Schön, Uppsala University
11:35 AM
Scalable Discrete Sampling as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
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Yutian Chen, Google DeepMind ; Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge
12:05 PM
Floor Discussion
