Mandt, S., Hoffman, M. D., & Blei, D. M. (2016). A variational analysis of stochastic gradient algorithms. Proceedings of ICML 2016, 354–363.
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Why this is here
Named in A4 as the precursor of Mandt, Hoffman and Blei 2017 (LIT-1898). Registered so that the two are read together; the later paper is the one to read first. The reading confirms that this one adds nothing the later one lacks, and that its scope is the same: the stationary regime of a regular model near one optimum.