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