biocore / BIRDMAn

Bayesian Inferential Regression for Differential Microbiome Analysis
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Support for Variational Inference #66

Open mortonjt opened 2 years ago

mortonjt commented 2 years ago

Eventually, it would be nice if there was support for Variational Inference. It can be significantly faster than MCMC, with the caveat that the posterior estimates aren't accurate.