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Reparameterization Tricks: Variance Reduction by Smarter Gradients

How moving randomness outside the computation graph turns noisy gradient estimators into low-variance, differentiable ones The post Reparameterization Tricks: Variance Reduction by Smarter Gradients appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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