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A RealNVP conditional normalising flow (from scratch?)

15 minute read

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In this post I will attempt to give an introduction to conditional normalising flows, not to be confused with continuous normalising flows, that model both \(\vec{\theta}\) and \(\vec{x}\) in the conditional distribution \(p(\vec{\theta}\vert\vec{x})\). I was nicely surprised at how simple it is to implement compared to unconditional normalising flows, so I thought I’d show this in a straightforward way. Assumes you’ve read my post on Building a normalising flow from scratch using PyTorch.

An introduction to continuous normalising flows

25 minute read

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In this post I will attempt to give an introduction to continuous normalising flows, an evolution of normalising flows that translate the idea of training a discrete set of transformations to approximate a posterior, into training an ODE or vector field to do the same thing.

Variational Inference Introduction

36 minute read

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In this post I will attempt to give an introduction to variational inference with some examples using the NumPyro python package. Partly under construction

Markov Chain (+) Monte Carlo methods

21 minute read

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In this post I’ll go through “what is MCMC?”, “How is it useful for statistical inference?” And the conditions under which it is stable.

Rejection Sampling

10 minute read

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In this post I’m going to introduce rejection sampling as a way to generate samples from an unnormalised pdf as further background to MCMC.

Inverse Transform Sampling

6 minute read

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Introduction into inverse transform sampling for continuous and discrete probability distributions.

First Blog Post/Fitting a line I

14 minute read

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First blog post, outlining what I’m going to try and do in the next few posts and some basics on Bayesian analysis.

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