Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France; Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Machine Learning, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Omar Chehab, Aapo Hyvarinen, Andrej Risteski
noise-contrastive estimation;annealed importance sampling
Provable benefits of annealing for estimating normalizing constants: Importance Sampling, Noise-Contrastive Estimation, and beyond