Machine learning foundations· 2012
Stochastic Variational Inference
On the reading lists
- #229 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #19 in Machine learning foundations (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Enabled scalable Bayesian inference using stochastic optimization over massive datasets.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2012 (from arXiv 1206.7051)
- Published
- 2013
- Citations
- 3,162 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.509 · computed rank 229 · consensus 0.71, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.703 (2010s · foundations), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.