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Estimation of Non-Normalized Statistical Models by Score Matching

Aapo Hyvärinen

2005 · DBLP: journals/jmlr/Hyvarinen05
Journal of machine learning research · 2,101 Citations

TLDR

While the estimation of the gradient of log-density function is, in principle, a very difficult non-parametric problem, it is proved a surprising result that gives a simple formula that simplifies to a sample average of a sum of some derivatives of the log- density given by the model.