Author name: Luca Ghafourpour, Sinho Chewi, Alessio Figalli, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian

arXiv:2602.17525v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In variational inference (VI), the practitioner approximates a high-dimensional distribution $\pi$ with a simple surrogate one, often a (product) Gaussian distribution. However, in many cases of prac…