Sylvester Normalizing Flows for Variational Inference
2018
Variational inference relies on flexible approximate posterior distributions. Normalizing flows provide a general recipe to con-
struct flexible variational posteriors. We introduce Sylvester normalizing flows, which can be seen as a generalization of planar flows. Sylvester normalizing flows remove the well-known single-unit bottleneck from planar flows, making a single transformation much more flexible. We compare the performance of Sylvester normalizing flows against planar flows and inverse autoregressive flows and demonstrate that they compare favorably on several datasets.
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