Variational Chernoff Bounds for Graphical Models
Pradeep RavikumarJohn D. LaffertyPublished in: CoRR (2012)
Keyphrases
- graphical models
- belief propagation
- approximate inference
- probabilistic inference
- probabilistic model
- upper bound
- probabilistic graphical models
- lower bound
- free energy
- random variables
- marginal probabilities
- variational methods
- bayesian networks
- structure learning
- worst case
- conditional independence
- upper and lower bounds
- belief networks
- conditional random fields
- map inference
- image segmentation
- message passing
- exact inference
- lower and upper bounds
- statistical inference
- markov networks
- exponential family
- search algorithm
- structural learning