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Towards Bayesian Deep Learning: A Survey (arxiv.org)
4 points by tonybeltramelli on Apr 7, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: This survey maps out "Bayesian deep learning," which pairs deep learning's pattern recognition with probability-based reasoning that tracks uncertainty and causal links, so each side feeds the other. It reviews uses in recommendation, topic discovery, and control, and separates this idea from simply adding probability to a neural network.

Abstract · A Survey on Bayesian Deep Learning

A comprehensive artificial intelligence system needs to not only perceive the environment with different `senses' (e.g., seeing and hearing) but also infer the world's conditional (or even causal) relations and corresponding uncertainty. The past decade has seen major advances in many perception tasks such as visual object recognition and speech recognition using deep learning models. For higher-level inference, however, probabilistic graphical models with their Bayesian nature are still more powerful and flexible. In recent years, Bayesian deep learning has emerged as a unified probabilistic framework to tightly integrate deep learning and Bayesian models. In this general framework, the perception of text or images using deep learning can boost the performance of higher-level inference and in turn, the feedback from the inference process is able to enhance the perception of text or images. This survey provides a comprehensive introduction to Bayesian deep learning and reviews its recent applications on recommender systems, topic models, control, etc. Besides, we also discuss the relationship and differences between Bayesian deep learning and other related topics such as Bayesian treatment of neural networks. For a constantly updating project page, please refer to https://github.com/js05212/BayesianDeepLearning-Survey.

Hao Wang, Dit-Yan Yeung
arXiv:1604.01662 · stat.ML, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG, cs.NE · submitted Apr 6, 2016 · updated Jan 6, 2021
abstract · pdf · html · Published in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 2020. Constantly updating project page at https://github.com/js05212/BayesianDeepLearning-Survey

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