Many facets of Bayesian Modelling are firmly established in Machine Learning and give rise to state-of-the-art solutions to application problems. The sheer number of techniques, ideas and models which have been proposed, and the terminology, can be bewildering. With this tutorial review, we aim to give a wide high-level overview over this important field, concentrating on central ideas and methods, and on their interconnections. The reader will gain a basic understanding of the topics and their relationships, armed with which she can branch to details of her interest using the references to more specialized textbooks and reviews we provide here.
Laurent Valentin Jospin, Jesse Ray Murray Lahaye