Book I · Chapter 7
Probabilistic and latent-variable models
Build latent-variable and structured models before modern deep generative models.
Read first: Probability and statistics
Chapter contents
8 entries · read in order- 01 Gaussian processes✓ Concept
- 02 Factor analysis and probabilistic PCA✓ Concept
- 03 Expectation-Maximization (EM)✓ Concept
- 04 Gaussian mixture models✓ Concept
- 05 Probabilistic graphical models✓ Concept
- 06 Belief propagation (message passing)✓ Concept
- 07 Hidden Markov models✓ Concept
- 08 Forward-backward and Viterbi: dynamic programming on chains✓ Concept