Tag: primal

Scalable Mean-Field Variational Inference via Preconditioned Primal-Dual Optimization arXiv:2602.07632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we investigate the large-scale mean-field variational inference (MFVI) problem from a mini-batch primal-dual perspective. By reformulating MFVI as a constrained finite-sum problem, we develop a novel primal-dual algorithm based on an augmented Lagrangian formulation, termed primal-dual variational inference (PD-VI).…