| VI | Variational Inference |
| MCMC | Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo |
| geoVI | geometric Variational Inference |
| VB | Variational Bayes’ |
| RMHMC | Riemannian manifold Hamilton Monte-Carlo |
| HMC | Hamilton (Hybrid) Monte-Carlo |
| MGVI | Metric Gaussian Variational Inference |
| NIFTy | Numerical Information Field Theory |
| KL | Kullback–Leibler divergence |
| MVP | matrix vector product |
| MAP | Maximum a posterior |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier transform |
| FFT | Fast Fourier transform |
| ELBO | Evidence lower bound |