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latent-variables
- May 19, 2026 The Evidence Lower Bound as a Latent Variable Objective How the intractable marginal likelihood of a latent variable model is split into a reconstruction term and a KL term, and what each term pushes the encoder to do. deep learning
- Dec 8, 2025 Expectation-Maximization as Inference with Latent Variables Why the log outside a sum over hidden variables blocks direct maximization, how an exact E step makes a lower bound tight enough to guarantee progress, and where the fixed points end up. machine learning