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Variational Inference: Why the ELBO Trades Accuracy for Tractability

Variational Inference: Why the ELBO Trades Accuracy for Tractability Bayesian inference is easy to write down and hard to compute. Given data x and latent variables z , Bayes' rule gives the posterior: p ( z ∣ x ) = p ( x ) p ( x ∣ z ) p ( z ) ​ The numerator is usually easy: a prior p ( z ) and a…

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  1. 2026-10-28 18:11 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Variational Inference: Why the ELBO Trades Accuracy for Tractability

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