Variational Bayesian Inference with Stochastic Search John Paisley1 jpaisley@berkeley.edu David M. Blei3 blei@cs.princeton.edu Michael I. Jordan1,2 jordan@eecs.berkeley.edu 1 Department of EECS, 2 Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley 3 Department of Computer Science, Princeton University Abstract Mean-field variational inference is a method for approximate Bayesian posterior inference. It approxi