marginalize out
marginalize out verb: the act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.
Verb
marginalize out (third-person singular simple present marginalizes out, present participle marginalizing out, simple past and past participle marginalized out)
- The act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.
- One way to efficiently define such a large set of functions is to learn a probability distribution over all the relevant variables, then solve the classification task by marginalizing out the missing variables.2016, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 5, in Deep Learning, page 98
- To do this, we need to marginalize out the model parameters #92;mu, W, and #92;sigma² with respect to appropriate prior distributions.2006, Cristopher M. Bishop, chapter 12, in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, page 581
Forms of marginalize out
| third-person singular present | marginalizes out |
|---|---|
| present participle | marginalizing out |
| past participle | marginalized out |
| past | marginalized out |
Questions about marginalize out
- What does marginalize out mean?
- Marginalize out means the act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.
- What part of speech is marginalize out?
- Marginalize out is a verb.
- What is the past tense of marginalize out?
- The past tense of marginalize out is marginalized out.
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