Mode Collapse of Mean-Field Variational Inference

arXiv:2510.17063 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-10-20 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-12

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