Another reason he uses PMF is probably because Danny Tarlow (post author) is a student at UToronto. Russ Salakhutdinov and Andrei Mnih, the authors of the PMF m

Another reason he uses PMF is probably because Danny Tarlow (post author) is a student at UToronto. Russ Salakhutdinov and Andrei Mnih, the authors of the PMF method, are also students at UToronto.