Variational Inference: Foundations and Innovations Venue: The Program for Economic Research (PER)'s Fall Mini Course will be held in two parts. Part I: Thursday, September 26, 2:30pm– 4:30pm, Room 301, Uris Hall (get directions) Part II: Friday, September 27, 2:00pm-4:00pm, Room 301, Uris Hall (get directions). *Open to current Columbia University students only Speaker: David Blei, Professor of Statistics & Computer Science, Columbia University A core problem of modern statistics and machine learning is to approximate difficult-to-compute probability distributions. This problem is especially important in probabilistic…
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