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Variational Bayes Inference

Variational Bayes Inference is a methodological framework within approximate Bayesian inference that formulates posterior approximation as an optimization problem by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between a tractable variational distribution and the true posterior distribution.

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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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fastSTRUCTURE: Variational Inference of Population Structure in Large SNP Data Sets

Anil Raj, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan K. Pritchard · Genetics · 2014 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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    Max Welling

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    15 publications · 18.1K citations

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  2. MP
    M. P. Wand

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    17 publications · 1K citations

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  3. MI
    Michael I. Jordan

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    13 publications · 2.7K citations

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  4. DM
    David M. Blei

    Princeton University, United States

    14 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. NB
    Nizar Bouguila

    Concordia University, Canada

    16 publications · 376 citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    51 publications

    5K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    18 h-index

    48 publications

    4.2K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    17 h-index

    48 publications

    2.9K citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    42 publications

    2.2K citations

  5. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    16 h-index

    29 publications

    34K citations

  6. University of Technology Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    15 h-index

    26 publications

    1.6K citations

  7. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    15 h-index

    55 publications

    2.6K citations

  8. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

    London, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    31 publications

    2.5K citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 150 publications · 8.8K citations

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  2. Neural Information Processing Systems

    Conference · 21 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

    19 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. International Conference on Machine Learning

    Conference · 10 publications · 206 citations

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