arXiv Machine Learning June 24, 2026 By Jinlin Lai, Antonio Linero, Yuling Yao

Predictive variational inference: Learn the predictively optimal posterior distribution

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arXiv:2410. 14843v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vanilla variational inference finds an optimal approximation to the Bayesian posterior distribution, but even the exact Bayesian posterior is often not meaningful under model misspecification.

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