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variational inference: a standalone construct

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Bayesian statistics

approximating a hard posterior by the closest member of a simpler family, turning inference into optimization.

In Bayesian statistics, variational inference refers to approximating a hard posterior by the closest member of a simpler family, turning inference into optimization. This meaning comes from Jordan (1999) in Machine Learning.[1]

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References

Jordan, M. I., Ghahramani, Z., Jaakkola, T. S., & Saul, L. K. (1999). An Introduction to Variational Methods for Graphical Models. Machine Learning, 37(2), 183-233. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007665907178

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