variational
Adjective
Meaning
variational (comparative more variational, superlative most variational)
Of, pertaining to, or caused by variation
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A complete modern statement of the variational Fermat principle is that the optical length of the path followed by light between two fixed points, A and B, is an extremum.
An equivalent weak or variational form of the equation, proved to produce the same velocity solution as the Navier–Stokes equation, citation is given by, : for divergence-free test functions w satisfying appropriate boundary conditions.
A few types of methods might work for finding optimal parameters from a likelihood function, including maximum likelihood (ML), maximum a posteriori (MAP), expectation-maximization (EM), and variational Bayes (VB).
A renewed interest and several recent advances in variational inference has motivated us to support and co-organise this year’s workshop on Advances in Variational InferenceNeural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Montreal.
In other words, natural effects create variational “noise” that completely swamps the concern raised about “global warming.”
His current research interests include optimization problems and variational methods with applications in optical flow, object detection and classification.