Short Notes on Variational Bounds with Rescaled Terms Posted on June 27, 2016 by DJR Reply You can get the pdf of this post here. For a quick intro to variational approximations, checkout the posts below: Intro to Variational Inference in graphical models Approximating Free Energies Useful Inequalities for Variational Inference Partition Functions and the Jensen-Feynman Inequalities (2/3)