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Good resources to learn Variational Bayes method


Hi HN,

I am looking for textbooks and/or online courses that go over the Variational Bayes method systematically based on math and probability theory. I'm less interested in coding so not too keen to know Python or R packages and tutorials involving them.

I will really appreciate it if anyone who works in this area can suggest books or online courses. Even if the course is not free, that's all right. Thank you!


  👤 jstx1 Accepted Answer ✓
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin Murphy has a chapter on it. Or you can read the few papers from the 90s and early 00s on it.

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