Energetic variational inference derives existing particle-based VI methods from energy-dissipation laws and proposes an approximation-then-variation scheme that preserves particle-level structure while reducing KL divergence.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B 28(1), 131–142 (1966)
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Particle-based Energetic Variational Inference
Energetic variational inference derives existing particle-based VI methods from energy-dissipation laws and proposes an approximation-then-variation scheme that preserves particle-level structure while reducing KL divergence.