Stanford University; Microsoft Research New England; DeepMind; Tsinghua University
Jiaxin Shi, Yuhao Zhou, Jessica Hwang, Michalis Titsias, Lester Mackey
Gradient estimation;Stein's method;Markov chain;score function;REINFORCE;discrete latent variables;VAE;control variates;variance reduction
Gradient Estimation with Discrete Stein Operators