span class="math inline">\(100\)</span>.</p>
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<h3>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 gradie