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Mean-Field
Feb 2, 2026
ML Math Derivations
28 min readML Math Derivations (14): Variational Inference and Variational EM
A first-principles derivation of variational inference. From the ELBO identity and the mean-field assumption to the CAVI updates, variational EM, and the reparameterization trick that powers VAEs.
May 31, 2024
PDE and Machine Learning
54 min readPDE and ML (3): Variational Principles and Optimization
Calculus of variations to Wasserstein gradient flow and the mean-field limit of neural networks.