Youssef Marzouk
MIT
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Youssef Marzouk
Transportation of measure underlies many powerful, contemporary tools for Bayesian inference, density estimation, and generative modeling. The essential idea is to couple the target probability distribution with a simple, tractable ``reference''...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS/CSC Distinguished Speaker: Youssef Marzouk
Bayesian inference provides a natural framework for quantifying uncertainty in model parameters and predictions, and for combining heterogeneous sources of information. But the computational demands of the Bayesian framework constitute a major...