2012/07/04 by Markus Harva, Harva, Markus, Tapani Raiko +7
Chemistry · Computer Science · Mathematics · #Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Mathematical Software (cs.MS) #Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #cs.LG #cs.MS #stat.ML
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1207.1380
Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-First Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2005)
arxiv created 2012/07/04 · openalex publication_date 2012/07/04 · arxiv updated 2012/07/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A software library for constructing and learning probabilistic models is presented. The library offers a set of building blocks from which a large variety of static and dynamic models can be built. These include hierarchical models for variances of other variables and many nonlinear models. The underlying variational Bayesian machinery, providing for fast and robust estimation but being mathematically rather involved, is almost completely hidden from the user thus making it very easy to use the library. The building blocks include Gaussian, rectified Gaussian and mixture-of-Gaussians variables and computational nodes which can be combined rather freely.