Bayesian Online Natural Gradient (BONG) by Jones et al., 2024
In our inaugural meeting, we covered BONG, which shows us how to do online variational inference in a principled manner.
- Paper link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=E7en5DyO2G
- Presenters: Hadi Vafaii, Kaylene Stocking
We started by going through our mission statement, and some logistics. We then discussed why inference is important, and how BONG addresses that in an online setting.
Watch the full meeting here: