Learning Bayesian Statistics

#167 Amortized Inference & GPUs for Stan, with Paul-Christian Bürkner & Steve Bronder

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Takeaways:

Q: What is amortized Bayesian inference and how does it differ from MCMC?

Instead of running MCMC on each dataset, you train neural networks on data simulated from the…