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# Approximate posterior mathematical notation

Approximate posterior is a recurring research-paper notation family. A tractable learned distribution used to approximate an often-intractable posterior…

## Public overview

Approximate posterior is a recurring research-paper notation family. A tractable learned distribution used to approximate an often-intractable posterior over latent variables given an observation.

Approximate posterior: A tractable learned distribution used to approximate an often-intractable posterior over latent variables given an observation. Example: The encoder predicts a latent mean and variance for each observation.

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