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Author: Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland

Abstract: Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation and Bayesian inference. Jensen computes simple lower bounds on otherwise intractable quantities such as products of sums and latent log-likelihoods. This simplification then permits operations like integration and maximization. Quite often (i.e. in discriminative learning) upper bounds are needed as well. We derive and prove an efficient analytic inequality that provides such variational upper bounds. This inequality holds for latent variable mixtures of exponential family distributions and thus spans a wide range of contemporary statistical models. We also discuss applications of the upper bounds including maximum conditional likelihood, large margin discriminative models and conditional Bayesian inference. Convergence, efficiency and prediction results are shown. 1

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2 Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation and Bayesian inference. [sent-6, score-0.24]

3 Jensen computes simple lower bounds on otherwise intractable quantities such as products of sums and latent log-likelihoods. [sent-7, score-0.769]

4 This simplification then permits operations like integration and maximization. [sent-8, score-0.194]

5 in discriminative learning) upper bounds are needed as well. [sent-11, score-0.907]

6 We derive and prove an efficient analytic inequality that provides such variational upper bounds. [sent-12, score-0.426]

7 This inequality holds for latent variable mixtures of exponential family distributions and thus spans a wide range of contemporary statistical models. [sent-13, score-0.811]

8 We also discuss applications of the upper bounds including maximum conditional likelihood, large margin discriminative models and conditional Bayesian inference. [sent-14, score-1.195]

9 1 1 Introduction Statistical model estimation and inference often require the maximization, evaluation, and integration of complicated mathematical expressions. [sent-16, score-0.26]

10 One approach for simplifying the computations is to find and manipulate variational upper and lower bounds instead of the expressions themselves. [sent-17, score-0.883]

11 A prominent tool for computing such bounds is Jensen's inequality which subsumes many information-theoretic bounds (cf. [sent-18, score-1.197]

12 In maximum likelihood (ML) estimation under incomplete data, Jensen is used to derive an iterative EM algorithm [2]. [sent-20, score-0.332]

13 For graphical models, intractable inference and estimation is performed via variational bounds [7]. [sent-21, score-0.766]

14 Bayesian integration also uses Jensen and EM-like bounds to compute integrals that are otherwise intractable [9]. [sent-22, score-0.694]

15 Recently, however, the learning community has seen the proliferation of conditional or discriminative criteria. [sent-23, score-0.5]

16 These include support vector machines, maximum entropy discrimination distributions [4], and discriminative HMMs [3]. [sent-24, score-0.526]

17 These criteria allocate resources with the given task (classification or regression) in mind, yielding improved performance. [sent-25, score-0.268]

18 In contrast, under canonical ML each density is trained separately to describe observations rather than optimize classification or regression. [sent-26, score-0.108]

19 Please download the long version with tighter bounds, detailed proofs, more results, important extensions and sample matlab code from: http://www. [sent-29, score-0.121]

20 edu/ "-'jebara/bounds Computationally, what differentiates these criteria from ML is that they not only require Jensen-type lower bounds but may also utilize the corresponding upper bounds. [sent-32, score-0.856]

21 The Jensen bounds only partially simplify their expressions and some intractabilities remain. [sent-33, score-0.519]

22 For instance, latent distributions need to be bounded above and below in a discriminative setting [4] [3]. [sent-34, score-0.513]

23 Metaphorically, discriminative learning requires lower bounds to cluster positive examples and upper bounds to repel away from negative ones. [sent-35, score-1.502]

24 We derive these complementary upper bounds 2 which are useful for discriminative classification and regression. [sent-36, score-1.038]

25 These bounds are structurally similar to Jensen bounds, allowing easy migration of ML techniques to discriminative settings. [sent-37, score-0.831]

26 This paper is organized as follows: We introduce the probabilistic models we will use: mixtures of the exponential family. [sent-38, score-0.279]

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28 One simplification is to lower bound via Jensen's inequality or EM. [sent-40, score-0.37]

29 We show implementation and results of the bounds in applications (i. [sent-42, score-0.484]

30 Finally, a strict algebraic proof is given to validate the reverse-bound. [sent-45, score-0.144]

31 2 The Exponential Family We restrict the reverse-Jensen bounds to mixtures of the exponential family (e-family). [sent-46, score-0.76]

32 In practice this class of densities covers a very large portion of contemporary statistical models. [sent-47, score-0.192]

33 Mixtures of the e-family include Gaussians Mixture Models, Multinomials, Poisson, Hidden Markov Models, Sigmoidal Belief Networks, Discrete Bayesian Networks, etc. [sent-48, score-0.056]

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35 The table above lists example A and K functions for Gaussian and multinomial distributions. [sent-59, score-0.13]

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41 2 A weaker bound for Gaussian mixture regression appears in [6]. [sent-69, score-0.191]

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