Practice Variational Inference For Latent Variables (5.8.3) - Latent Variable & Mixture Models
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Variational Inference for Latent Variables

Practice - Variational Inference for Latent Variables

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a latent variable?

💡 Hint: Think of examples where you make educated guesses based on available data.

Question 2 Easy

Why do we need variational inference?

💡 Hint: Consider the complexity of direct calculations.

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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

💡 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

💡 Hint: Reflect on its role in approximation processes.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

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.

💡 Hint: Think about the specific applications of variational inference in analyzing text.

Challenge 2 Hard

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

💡 Hint: Consider the context in which you need your inference results.

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