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Variational Bayes

Variational Bayes is a variational inference method that approximates intractable posterior distributions in Bayesian models by framing posterior estimation as an optimization problem over a family of tractable distributions.

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Diederik P. Kingma, Max Welling · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2013 · 15.6K citations · Full text

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<i>Stan</i> : A Probabilistic Programming Language

Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman, Matthew D. Hoffman et al. · Journal of Statistical Software · 2017 · 7.4K citations · Full text

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An Introduction to Variational Methods for Graphical Models

Michael I. Jordan, Zoubin Ghahramani, Tommi Jaakkola et al. · Machine Learning · 1999 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Fast Kd-Trees for the Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Other Decomposable Bregman Divergences

UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2025 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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Learning structured output representation using deep conditional generative models

Kihyuk Sohn, Xinchen Yan, Honglak Lee · 2015 · 2.1K citations

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    David M. Blei

    Princeton University, United States

    25 publications · 4.4K citations

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    Max Welling

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    24 publications · 18.2K citations

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    Karl Friston

    University College London, United Kingdom

    20 publications · 3.2K citations

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    Lawrence Carin

    Duke University, United States

    22 publications · 988 citations

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    Michael I. Jordan

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    19 publications · 4.3K citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    34 h-index

    109 publications

    17.4K citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    24 h-index

    58 publications

    4.5K citations

  3. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    22 h-index

    48 publications

    35.3K citations

  4. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    22 h-index

    61 publications

    4.7K citations

  5. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    21 h-index

    77 publications

    3.3K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    20 h-index

    63 publications

    5.7K citations

  7. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

    London, United Kingdom

    20 h-index

    52 publications

    7.2K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    20 h-index

    58 publications

    46.2K citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 275 publications · 16.9K citations

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

    26 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. Neural Information Processing Systems

    Conference · 31 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    TPAMI · 19 publications · 3.7K citations

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  5. Neural Computation

    17 publications · 1.7K citations

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