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Variational Bayesian Inference

Variational Bayesian Inference is a method for approximating intractable posterior distributions in Bayesian models by formulating the inference problem as an optimization task that minimizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the true posterior and a tractable variational distribution.

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Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

Diederik P. Kingma, Max Welling · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2013 · 15.6K 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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Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference

Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan · Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning · 2008 · 1.8K citations

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    Yulong Huang

    Harbin Engineering University, China

    19 publications · 2.6K citations

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    Yonggang Zhang

    Harbin Engineering University, China

    18 publications · 2.7K citations

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    Max Welling

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    18 publications · 18.4K citations

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    Lawrence Carin

    Duke University, United States

    18 publications · 1K citations

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    David M. Blei

    Princeton University, United States

    18 publications · 4.8K citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    30 h-index

    79 publications

    8.5K citations

  2. Harbin Engineering University

    Harbin, China

    23 h-index

    89 publications

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  3. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    22 h-index

    91 publications

    5.1K citations

  4. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    20 h-index

    47 publications

    2.3K citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    20 h-index

    65 publications

    4.4K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    19 h-index

    73 publications

    6.8K citations

  7. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

    London, United Kingdom

    18 h-index

    50 publications

    5.8K citations

  8. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    17 h-index

    31 publications

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 174 publications · 11.2K citations

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

    47 publications · 3.6K citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    TPAMI · 20 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Conference · 16 publications · 490 citations

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