VBLab: a Matlab package for Variational Inference

Documentation

The official documentation is avaiable at https://vbayeslab.github.io/VBLabDocs/

Getting started

Install VBLab package

1. Download or clone the VBLab package on VBLab Github Page
2. Add the VBLab package, with all subfolders, to the Matlab search path. See How to add or remove folders to Matlab search path

How to start

1. Read the VB tutorial paper for the theoretical explanation of the VB methods supported by the VBLab package. See also shorter version of the VB tutorial on the documentation website.
2. Run examples showing how to use various VB methods to fit different VBLab and user-defined models. See the detailed explanation of the examples in the the VB tutorial paper or in the Example section on the documentation website.
3. Check API reference for supported VB techniques, statistical models and how to define custom models for users' applications.

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Authors

• Trong-Nghia Nguyen, PhD candidate, The University of Sydney Business School. (Google scholar, Research gate, LinkedIn)
• Minh-Ngoc Tran, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Business School. (Google scholar, Research gate, Home Page)
• Viet-Hung Dao, PhD candidate, The University of New South Wales Business School. (Home Page)

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Citing VBLab

If you use VBLab in a publication, we would appreciate your citation to the following paper:

M.-N. Tran, T.-N. Nguyen and V.-H. Dao (2021). A practical tutorial on Variational Bayes. Technical Report.

Or bibtex entry :

@TECHREPORT{Tran:2021,
	AUTHOR = "M.-N. Tran, T.-N. Nguyen and V.-H. Dao",
	TITLE = "A practical tutorial on Variational Bayes",
	YEAR = {2021},
	NOTE = {DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20173.59360},
}