Fitting Large Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models Using Variational Expectation Maximization

arXiv:2604.26160 · stat.ME, cs.CE, cs.LG, cs.MS, stat.CO · Submitted 2026-04-28 · Read on arXiv

stat.ME, cs.CE, cs.LG, cs.MS, stat.CO

Submitted: 2026-04-28

Updated: 2026-09-22

Terminology

• Adjoint Method — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Variational Expectation Maximization — 5× in this paper
• Activation Function — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Objective Function — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Longitudinal Data — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Machine Learning — 2× in this paper
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fortieth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Higher-order derivatives — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Population Approach Group in Europe — 1× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Score Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Variational Bayes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Automatic differentiation in machine learning: a survey
• Black Box Variational Inference with a Deterministic Objective: Faster, More Accurate, and Even More Black Box
• Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
• Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
• Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models

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