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==A duality formula for variational inference==

[[File:CAVI algorithm explain.jpg|600px|thumb|right|Pictorial illustration of coordinate ascent variational inference algorithm by the duality formula <ref name=Yoon2021></ref>.]]

The following theorem is referred to as a duality formula for variational inference.<ref name=Yoon2021> It explains some important properties of the variational distributions used in variational Bayes methods.