Variational Inference By Automatic Differentiation - Latest Information & Updates 2026

We find a surrogate posterior by maximizing the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO). With a proposal distribution, this can be solved ...

In this video I will try to give the basic intuition of what VI is. The first and only online

In this video, we break down

ADVI is an general VI algorithm that applies to problems outside the Expo. Family. It is a form of SVI, it does stochastic gradient ...

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In real-world applications, the posterior over the latent variables Z given some data D is usually intractable. But we can use a ...

This is a single lecture from a course. If you you like the material and want more context (e.g., the lectures that came before), check ...

A recap of VI up to now, with an additional review of SVI methods, both for Expo. Family (SVI paper) and for the general case ...

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Derivatives, mostly in the form of gradients and Hessians, are ubiquitous in machine learning.