Contributor
Zhehui Chen

A stochastic variational inference framework for probabilistic modeling toolbox in R


Mentors
Xingguo, Tuo Zhao
Organization
R project for statistical computing

Stochastic variational inference is a powerful tool for analyzing probabilistic models, especially for large scale problem. In this project, our goal is to implement a generic algorithm based on stochastic variational inference for a large family of probabilistic models, including latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), hidden Markov models (HMM), and Bayesian mixture models (BMM) and etc. We describe the design and the implementation plan of our project and propose a timeline for our development.