arXiv Machine Learning By Xinwei Shen, Diana Cai, Cheng Zhang, David M. Blei

Simulation-Based Empirical Bayes

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arXiv:2607. 21843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empirical Bayes (EB) performs simultaneous inference across many related latent variables.

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