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Meaning of marginalize out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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