Variational Inference

led by Prof. Jeffrey Regier

Astroinformatics Summer School 2022

Organized by Penn State Center for Astrostatistics

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This repository contains one computational notebook:

• vi_image_interpretation.ipynb (Jupyter notebook): Applies modern variation inference to interpreting astronomical images of stars

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Running Labs

Summer School participants will be provided instructions for accessing a JupyterLab server.

Running Jupter/Python notebooks on a local computer

Others may install Python 3 and Jupyter (or JupyterLab) on their local computer or use Google Colab to open the Jupyter notebooks.

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Additional Links

• GitHub respository for all of Astroinformatics Summer school
• Astroinformatics Summer school Website & registration

Contributing

We welcome people filing issues and/or pull requests to improve these labs for future summer schools.