Before revision:  Here, we propose a novel variational inference framework for the explicit modeling of time series, Variational Inference for Nonlinear Dynamics (VIND),  that is able to uncover nonlinear observation and transition functions from sequential data.
After revision:  Here, we propose a novel variational inference framework for the explicit modeling of time series, Variational Inference for Nonlinear Dynamics (VIND), a variational inference framework that is able to uncover nonlinear observation and transition functions from sequential data.