JUMP-Means: Small-Variance Asymptotics for Markov Jump Processes

Jonathan H. Huggins, Karthik Narasimhan, Ardavan Saeedi, Vikash K. Mansinghka

Abstract: Markov jump processes (MJPs) are used to model a wide range of phenomenon from disease progression to RNA path folding. However, existing methods suffer from a number of shortcomings: degenerate tr...