Stein Variational Gradient Descent as Moment Matching

Authors: Qiang Liu, Dilin Wang

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical Our results provide a theoretical framework for analyzing properties of SVGD with different kernels, shedding insight into optimal kernel choice. Our Results We analyze the finite sample properties of SVGD.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Qiang Liu, Dilin Wang Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 {lqiang, dilin}@cs.utexas.edu
Pseudocode No The paper describes algorithms and concepts but does not include any structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement or link regarding the public availability of source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not report on experiments using specific datasets, thus no information on dataset availability is provided.
Dataset Splits No The paper focuses on theoretical analysis and does not describe empirical experiments with dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper focuses on theoretical analysis and does not provide details on specific hardware used for experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper focuses on theoretical analysis and does not provide details on specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper focuses on theoretical analysis and does not describe specific experimental setup details, hyperparameters, or training configurations.