摘要翻译：
变分贝叶斯(VB)是最近出现的一种贝叶斯推理的近似方法。它具有快速、可扩展的优点，可替代马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC),但它的逼近误差往往是未知的。本文从均值、模态、方差、预测密度和KL散度等方面导出了线性高斯多元方程回归的VB逼近误差。我们的结果表明VB很好地逼近了后验均值。揭示了影响后验方差和模态低估大小的因素。重要的是，我们证明VB可以准确地估计预测密度。
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英文标题：
《Approximation Properties of Variational Bayes for Vector Autoregressions》
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作者：
Reza Hajargasht
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最新提交年份：
2019
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分类信息：

一级分类：Statistics        统计学
二级分类：Machine Learning        机器学习
分类描述：Covers machine learning papers (supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised learning, graphical models, reinforcement learning, bandits, high dimensional inference, etc.) with a statistical or theoretical grounding
覆盖机器学习论文（监督，无监督，半监督学习，图形模型，强化学习，强盗，高维推理等）与统计或理论基础
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一级分类：Computer Science        计算机科学
二级分类：Machine Learning        机器学习
分类描述：Papers on all aspects of machine learning research (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning, bandit problems, and so on) including also robustness, explanation, fairness, and methodology. cs.LG is also an appropriate primary category for applications of machine learning methods.
关于机器学习研究的所有方面的论文（有监督的，无监督的，强化学习，强盗问题，等等），包括健壮性，解释性，公平性和方法论。对于机器学习方法的应用，CS.LG也是一个合适的主要类别。
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一级分类：Economics        经济学
二级分类：Econometrics        计量经济学
分类描述：Econometric Theory, Micro-Econometrics, Macro-Econometrics, Empirical Content of Economic Relations discovered via New Methods, Methodological Aspects of the Application of Statistical Inference to Economic Data.
计量经济学理论，微观计量经济学，宏观计量经济学，通过新方法发现的经济关系的实证内容，统计推论应用于经济数据的方法论方面。
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一级分类：Statistics        统计学
二级分类：Computation        计算
分类描述：Algorithms, Simulation, Visualization
算法、模拟、可视化
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英文摘要：
  Variational Bayes (VB) is a recent approximate method for Bayesian inference. It has the merit of being a fast and scalable alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) but its approximation error is often unknown. In this paper, we derive the approximation error of VB in terms of mean, mode, variance, predictive density and KL divergence for the linear Gaussian multi-equation regression. Our results indicate that VB approximates the posterior mean perfectly. Factors affecting the magnitude of underestimation in posterior variance and mode are revealed. Importantly, We demonstrate that VB estimates predictive densities accurately.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00617