About q-function

[kuaiyiLi]

Is there a derivation of q function?Can I share it? Thank you!

[chiragnagpal]

Are you referring to the Q function for the Deep Cox Mixtures paper?

[kuaiyiLi]

Yes!

[chiragnagpal]

The Q function for any general latent variable model is given as follows:

Q(theta) = E(Z|{All other variables}) [ log_likelihood({all other variables}) ]