Lift random variables through mixtures when looking for closed-form posteriors #36
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miniKanren
Copying @brandonwillard's message from #4. If we lift random/measurable variables through mixtures, we can enable some important closed-form posterior opportunities.
For example:
Conjugate updates are available between
Y_rv
and the twoZ_*_rv
, conditional on the values ofI_rv
.The model after lifting should be equivalent to the following:
The
Z_*_new_rv
terms are now amenable to the Poisson-gamma conjugate rewrites.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: