A GENERAL-PURPOSE ILLUMINATED TEMPERATURE GRADIENT PLATE

Stein Variational Gradient Descent: A General Purpose Bayesian Inference Algorithm

We propose a general purpose variational inference algorithm that forms a natural counterpart of gradient descent for optimization. Our method iteratively transports a set of particles to match the target distribution, by applying a form of functional gradient descent that minimizes the KL divergence. Empirical studies are performed on various real world models and datasets, on which our method...

General-Purpose Computation without General-Purpose Processors

Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator

The papers in this series are intended for internal use and are distributed by the author. Copies may be ordered from the library of the Department of Computer Science. Abstract alchemist is a general purpose transformation generating environment which supports specii-cation, generation, and execution of data transformations. alchemist allows an abstract spec-iication of the transformation thro...

A General Purpose Cryptography Survey

For far too long an end-user’s interaction with an application using cryptography has been ignored. Cryptography needs to be simplified and evolve such that users do not need to know they are even using it. While the required user-input must remain minimal the difficulties related to securing communication must be resolved automatically. Ubiquitous encrypted communication will not occur until t...

Emerald : A General - Purpose Programming

SUMMARY Emerald is a general-purpose language with aspects of traditional object-oriented languages, such as Smalltalk, and abstract data type languages, such as Modula-2 and Ada. It is strongly-typed with a non-traditional object model and type system that emphasize abstract types, allow separation of typing and implementation, and provide the exibility of polymorphism and subtyp-ing with comp...