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Adaptive Exponential Integration for Stable Gaussian Mixture Black-Box Variational Inference

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2601.14855v3 Announce Type: replace Black-box variational inference (BBVI) with Gaussian mixture families offers a flexible approach for approximating complex posterior distributions without requiring gradients of the target density. However, standard numerical optimization methods often suffer from instability and inefficiency.