marginalize outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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marginalize out (三人称単数 現在形 marginalizes out, 現在分詞 marginalizing out, 過去形および過去分詞形 marginalize out)

1. (mathematics) The act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.
   • 2016, Ian Goodfellow; Yoshua Bengio; Aaron Courville, chapter 5, in Deep Learning‎^[1], page 98:

     One way to efficiently define such a large set of functions is to learn a probability distribution over all the relevant variables, then solve the classification task by marginalizing out the missing variables.

   • 2006, Cristopher M. Bishop, chapter 12, in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, page 581:

     To do this, we need to marginalize out the model parameters ${\displaystyle \mu }$, ${\displaystyle W}$, and ${\displaystyle \sigma ^{2}}$ with respect to appropriate prior distributions.