Multilevel Monte Carlo estimation of log marginal likelihood

12/23/2019
by   Takashi Goda, et al.
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In this short note we provide an unbiased multilevel Monte Carlo estimator of the log marginal likelihood and discuss its application to variational Bayes.

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