Reviews: Doubly Robust Bayesian Inference for Non-Stationary Streaming Data with \beta -Divergences

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Overview The paper introduces a robust online change point detection algorithm for non-stationary time-series data. Robustness comes as a by product of minimizing \beta-divergence between data and fitted model as opposed to using KL divergence as in standard Bayesian inference. In the generalized Bayesian inference the posteriors are intractable. The paper mitigate this problem by resorting to structural variational approximation, which is proved to be exact as \beta converges to zero. The paper also discusses systematic approaches to initialize \beta and refine it online.