Meaning of marginalize out | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.

Examples

“One way to efficiently define such a large set of functions is to learn a probability distribution over all the relevant variables, then solve the classification task by marginalizing out the missing variables.”

“To do this, we need to marginalize out the model parameters #92;mu, W, and #92;sigma² with respect to appropriate prior distributions.”

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