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Tutorial on Variational Inference

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Description

The current tutorials cover a majority of MCMC. Could we get one for variational inference? The edward tutorial on Supervised Learning shows how to run inference using Kullback-Leibler divergence. It would be great if you could provide a similar port over at TFP.

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Start by reading the existing TFP tutorials and the referenced Edward tutorial on Supervised Learning. Use those as the basis for a comparable variational-inference tutorial using Kullback-Leibler divergence; done means a complete tutorial is added and demonstrates the requested inference workflow.

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Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, tensorflow
Domain
documentation, machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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Stale
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Mostly clear
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30/100

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