Model ranch

On this page we are collecting all the models we might want to use as "anchor models" for the first Pyro release -- that is, models / examples that must perform well before we are happy to release.

Brain storm

Some concepts / components to cover with the examples:

• Recognition models
• Local per data point (mean-field) params
• Reparam Elbo estimator
• Discrete variables and their estimators
• IID and time-series
• Non-elbo objectives

All the examples

Put any model / example that might be an anchor candidate here. We'll sort them out below.

Ideally each example is a model with a target data set and a reference result from a paper.

• VAE
• Classifier
• Semi-supervised classifier
• Some mixture models (which?)
• A model with stochastic recursion (AIR? Grammar?)
• An inverse simulation model?
• LDA?
• DMM?
• VRNN / RVAE?
• Something on imagenet (to verify scaling)

(What models are used as demos in our favorite VI papers? In edward?)

Prioritized

Gold

Silver