Sampling data or approximating probabilistic densities is one of the core problems in modern statistics, especially in Bayesian statistic. Beside of MCMC, Variational Inference is one of the two typical Bayesian approaches solving this problem. It leverages the Variational Inference algorithm to develop many recent powerful methods and models: Stochastic Variational Inference, Variational Autoencoder... This… Continue reading Variational Inference algorithm