Task: Summarization
Input (English): In classic papers, Zellner (1988, 2002) demonstrated that Bayesian inference could be derived as the solution to an information theoretic functional.   Below we derive a generalized form of this functional as a variational lower bound of a predictive information bottleneck objective.   This generalized functional encompasses most modern inference procedures and suggests novel ones.
Output (English): Rederive a wide class of inference procedures from an global information bottleneck objective.