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by twiecki 3365 days ago
No, back-propagation would not give full Bayesian inference (although there are some tricks [0]). They instead use variational inference[1], which allows for fast inference of continuous PGMs.

[0] http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_2248.html

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00788

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Most variational inference are not full-Bayesian as well...