o approximate the variational objective function, the ELBO. The number of draws used to approximate the ELBO is denoted by <code>elbo_samples</code>. We recommend a default value of <span class="math inline">\(100\)</span>, as we only evaluate the ELBO every <code>eval_elbo</code> iterations, which also defaults to <span class="math inline">\(100\)</span>.</p>
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