Practice Variational Inference for Latent Variables - 5.8.3 | 5. Latent Variable & Mixture Models | Advance Machine Learning
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is a latent variable?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think of examples where you make educated guesses based on available data.

Question 2

Easy

Why do we need variational inference?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the complexity of direct calculations.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is the purpose of variational inference?

  • To calculate exact posterior distributions
  • To approximate posterior distributions
  • To eliminate latent variables

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the definition of variational methods.

Question 2

True or False: KL Divergence is used to measure the similarity between two probability distributions in variational inference.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Reflect on its role in approximation processes.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design a hypothetical study on how variational inference could be applied to topic modeling in a large corpus of customer reviews. Detail the steps involved.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the specific applications of variational inference in analyzing text.

Question 2

Suppose you are comparing variational inference with MCMC for your dataset. Discuss the trade-offs in terms of accuracy and computational cost.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the context in which you need your inference results.

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