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Bodhisattvas are embodiments of inspiring qualities, avatars of the possible. Imagine thousands of bodhisattvas walking together down Fifth Avenue and into the Village, past the Stonewall Inn. Imagine the infinite variety of their forms. Imagine their celebration!
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Trans Pride Bodhisattva Celebration!
The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara or Guanyin has changed genders over the centuries from male to female, making them an avatar for Trans pride.

Variational Inference for Latent Variable Models in High Dimensions
Chenyang Zhong, Sumit Mukherjee, Bodhisattva Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01893 https…

Variational Inference for Latent Variable Models in High Dimensions
Variational inference (VI) is a popular method for approximating intractable posterior distributions in Bayesian inference and probabilistic machine learning. In this paper, we introduce a general framework for quantifying the statistical accuracy of mean-field variational inference (MFVI) for posterior approximation in Bayesian latent variable models with categorical local latent variables. Utilizing our general framework, we capture the exact asymptotic regime where MFVI `works' for the celeb…

Constrained Denoising, Empirical Bayes, and Optimal Transport
Adam Quinn Jaffe, Nikolaos Ignatiadis, Bodhisattva Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09986 https…

Constrained Denoising, Empirical Bayes, and Optimal Transport
In the statistical problem of denoising, Bayes and empirical Bayes methods can "overshrink" their output relative to the latent variables of interest. This work is focused on constrained denoising problems which mitigate such phenomena. At the oracle level, i.e., when the latent variable distribution is assumed known, we apply tools from the theory of optimal transport to characterize the solution to (i) variance-constrained, (ii) distribution-constrained, and (iii) general-constrained denoisin…