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Concept question on MC samping and IW samping #3

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leo-liuzy opened this issue Mar 21, 2019 · 0 comments
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Concept question on MC samping and IW samping #3

leo-liuzy opened this issue Mar 21, 2019 · 0 comments

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Correct me if I misread the paper.
For IW samping, the paper is using it to approximate the L(x)
For MC samping, I am not entirely sure about the line "The KL[qφ|pθ] is calculated analytically at each layer
when possible and otherwise approximated using Monte Carlo samplin" (page [3] just above sec 2.1)(https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02282.pdf).
Since the KL divergence is Gaussian and thus analytical, why do we need MC sampling? Could you clarify that?

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