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Structured Variational Distributions in VIBES

Variational methods are becoming increasingly popular for the approximate solution of complex probabilistic models in machine learning, computer vision, information retrieval and many other fields. Unfortunately, for every new application it is necessary first to derive the specific forms of the variational update equations for the particular probabilistic model being used, and then to implemen...

VIBES: A Variational Inference Engine for Bayesian Networks

In recent years variational methods have become a popular tool for approximate inference and learning in a wide variety of probabilistic models. For each new application, however, it is currently necessary first to derive the variational update equations, and then to implement them in application-specific code. Each of these steps is both time consuming and error prone. In this paper we describ...

Biophysics: Searching for Principles

Like all authors, I hope that this book will find wide readership. At the same time, I believe that good books are intensely personal objects. As readers, we have our favorite books, and this is an emotional statement, laden with context.1 Similarly, writers bring not just their knowledge and their technical skill to the creation of a book, but also their personalities. In writing something whi...

Biophysics.