FAVI vs NPE vs NSBI...

[jacksonloper]

Two things.

First thing: a suggestion to mention in the intro some of the other myriad names that point to nearly-identical ideas to neural SBI, such as NPE (neural posterior estimation) and FAVI (forward amortized variational inference) and perhaps oldest of all, sleep training (from the wake-sleep algorithm).

Second thing: is a plea for help. Is there any hope that the field will converge on one name for this? I'm personally quite fond of neural simulation based-inference, but currently in google scholar NPE gets about 452 papers whereas NSBI gets only 111. Do you have any clarity on this matter?

Many thanks!

Jackson