Variational Families#

AbstractVariationalFamily

Abstract base class used to represent families of distributions that can be used within variational inference.

AbstractVariationalGaussian

The variational Gaussian family of probability distributions.

CollapsedVariationalGaussian

Collapsed variational Gaussian.

ExpectationVariationalGaussian

The natural variational Gaussian family of probability distributions.

GraphVariationalGaussian

A variational Gaussian defined over graph-structured inducing inputs.

HeteroscedasticPrediction

Mean and variance of the signal and noise latent processes.

HeteroscedasticVariationalFamily

Variational family for two independent latent processes f and g.

NaturalVariationalGaussian

The natural variational Gaussian family of probability distributions.

VariationalGaussian

The variational Gaussian family of probability distributions.

VariationalGaussianInit

Initialization parameters for a variational Gaussian distribution.

WhitenedVariationalGaussian

The whitened variational Gaussian family of probability distributions.