This is the best textbook on graphical models, also from Jordan but later (2008): https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_FTML.pdf https://pe

This is the best textbook on graphical models, also from Jordan but later (2008): https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_FTML.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_F.... It also covers some general theory of variational inference. Source: I worked on PGMs in grad school.