Variational Linear Response

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 (NIPS 2003)

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Authors

Manfred Opper, Ole Winther

Abstract

A general linear response method for deriving improved estimates of cor- relations in the variational Bayes framework is presented. Three applica- tions are given and it is discussed how to use linear response as a general principle for improving mean field approximations.