Convexifying the Bethe Free Energy.

Ofer Meshi Ariel Jaimovich Amir Globerson Nir Friedman

Published in: UAI (2009)

Keyphrases

bethe free energy
free energy
fixed point
belief propagation
approximate inference

upper bound
competitive learning
message passing
graphical models
loopy belief propagation

posterior distribution
probability distribution
sufficient conditions
neural network

similarity measure
probabilistic inference
three dimensional
feature selection