This document discusses variational Bayes methods for deep learning including:
1. Variational Bayes approximates the posterior distribution p(Z|X) with a variational distribution q(Z;ξ) by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between them.
2. For linear dimensionality reduction, it presents a model with observation model p(X|Z,W), priors p(Z) and p(W), and approximates the posterior p(Z,W|X) with variational posterior q(Z)q(W).
3. It derives an objective function L to maximize the evidence lower bound, which involves the expected log likelihood and KL divergences of the vari