Forward Amortized Inference for Likelihood-Free Variational Marginalization

Luca Ambrogioni, Umut Güçlü, Julia Berezutskaya, Eva W. P. van den Borne, Yagmur Güçlütürk, Max Hinne, Eric Maris, Marcel van Gerven

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a new form of amortized variational inference by using the forward KL divergence in a joint-contrastive variational loss. The resulting forward amortized variational inf...