Harness the Model Uncertainty via Hierarchical Weakly Informative Priors in Bayesian Neural Network
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عنوان ژورنال: International Robotics & Automation Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2574-8092
DOI: 10.15406/iratj.2017.03.00057