carlo-approximation-of-the-gradients">Monte Carlo approximation of the gradients</h3>
<p>ADVI uses Monte Carlo integration to approximate the gradients of the ELBO. The number of draws used to approximate the gradients is denoted by <code>grad_samples</code>. We recommend a default value of <span class="math inline">\(1\)</span>, as this is the most efficient. It also a very noisy estimate of the gradient, but stochastic gradient ascent is capable of following such gradients.</p>
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