A0546
Title: Doubly geometry-informed variational Bayes
Authors: Minh-Ngoc Tran - University of Sydney (Australia) [presenting]
Abstract: Increasingly complicated models in modern statistics have called for more efficient Bayesian estimation methods. A Variational Bayes algorithm is developed that exploits both the information geometry of the manifold of probability distribution functions and that of the manifold of the variational parameters. The information geometry of the manifold of probability distributions results in the natural gradient which is the steepest ascent on this manifold. Utilising the information geometry of the manifold of the variational parameters leads to an efficient non-linear optimization technique that takes into account the structure of the parameter space. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is theoretically guaranteed and its performance is tested on several challenging examples including deep neural networks.
