Variational Inference on Undertidehttps://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/tags/variational-inference/Recent content in Variational Inference on UndertideHugo -- 0.151.0en-usSat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000STA414: Variational Inference, ELBO, EM, and Mixture Models (Question Set)https://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/posts/science/sta414-em-vi-elbo-simulation/Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/posts/science/sta414-em-vi-elbo-simulation/Problem-style sheet on VI evidence lower bounds, ELBO–KL decompositions, mean-field updates, EM for a two-component Gaussian mixture, and ELBO-based views of EM.Mean Field Questions and Variational Inference Variationshttps://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/posts/science/mean-field-vi-questions/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/posts/science/mean-field-vi-questions/Problem sets on ELBO vs KL to the true posterior, mean-field restriction, coordinate ascent updates, a small graphical model, EM vs VI, and diagonal Gaussian encoders in VAEs.EM, ELBO, and a Bernoulli–Gaussian Mixture: Worked Problemhttps://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/posts/science/em-bernoulli-gaussian-mixture-elbo-worked/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog-kircertas-projects.vercel.app/posts/science/em-bernoulli-gaussian-mixture-elbo-worked/A full worked exercise: joint and complete-data log-likelihood, responsibilities, ELBO decomposition, M-step updates, and why EM is a special case of VI.