Confronta i metodi

	Hamiltonian Monte Carlo con Dati Mancanti	Inferenza Variazionale con Dati Mancanti
Campo	Bayesiano	Bayesiano
Famiglia	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
Anno di origine	1996–2011	1994–2008
Ideatore	Radford M. Neal (HMC, 1996/2011); missing-data treatment via Bayesian data augmentation (Tanner & Wong, 1987)	Ghahramani & Jordan; Wainwright & Jordan (formal foundations)
Tipo	Bayesian computational sampler	Approximate Bayesian inference
Fonte seminale	Neal, R. M. (2011). MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics. In S. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones & X.-L. Meng (Eds.), Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (pp. 113-162). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1420079418	Ghahramani, Z. & Jordan, M. I. (1994). Supervised learning from incomplete data via an EM approach. In Cowan, J. D., Tesauro, G. & Alspector, J. (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6 (pp. 120–127). Morgan Kaufmann.
Alias	HMC with missing data, HMC data augmentation, Bayesian HMC imputation, HMC with data augmentation	VI with missing data, variational EM with missing data, VB missing data, mean-field VI for incomplete data
Correlati	6	4
Sintesi	Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with missing data extends the gradient-based HMC sampler to handle incomplete observations by treating missing values as additional unknown parameters. The posterior over model parameters and missing values is sampled jointly in one efficient pass, exploiting gradient information to explore the high-dimensional joint space with far fewer rejected proposals than random-walk MCMC.	Variational inference with missing data is a scalable Bayesian approach that simultaneously approximates the posterior over latent variables and model parameters while imputing missing observations. Instead of integrating over all possible values of the missing entries exactly, it posits a tractable approximate distribution and optimises it to be as close as possible to the true joint posterior, yielding fast, principled inference even in high-dimensional incomplete datasets.