Provable Gradient Variance Guarantees for
       Black-Box Variational Inference

                      Justin Domke
              College of Information and Computer Sciences
                University of Massachusetts Amherst
                    domke@cs.umass.edu

                       Abstract
     Recent variational inference methods use stochastic gradient estimators whose
     variance is not well understood. Theoretical guarantees for these estimators are
     important to understand wh ...