13 : Theory of Variational Inference
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We then went on to introduce mean field variational inference, in which the variational distribution over latent variables is assumed to factor as a product of functions over each latent variable. In this sense, the joint approximation is made using the simplifying assumption that all latent variables are independent. Alternatively, we can use approximations in which only groups of variables are assumed to be independent provided that the necessary computational resources are available.
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