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First provide a summary of the paper, and then address the following criteria: Quality, clarity, originality and significance. This paper proposed Integrated Non-Factorized Variational (INF-VB) inference. The INF-VB inference aims at solving the problem of the factorization assumption of the VB inference and includes the integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) as a special case. Therefore, the proposed method is applicable to more general settings than assumed by INLA. The theory and empirical evaluation is convincing.