Merging Belief Propagation and the Mean Field Approximation: A Free Energy Approach
Erwin RieglerGunvor Elisabeth KirkelundCarles Navarro i ManchonBernard H. FleuryPublished in: CoRR (2011)
Keyphrases
- free energy
- belief propagation
- exact inference
- graphical models
- approximate inference
- message passing
- graph cuts
- markov random field
- loopy belief propagation
- stereo matching
- pairwise
- fixed point
- energy minimization
- factor graphs
- energy function
- probabilistic model
- parameter estimation
- random variables
- upper bound
- generalized belief propagation
- bethe free energy
- marginal probabilities
- higher order
- multi view
- em algorithm
- belief networks
- competitive learning
- dynamic programming
- prior knowledge
- bayesian networks
- maximum a posteriori
- statistical physics
- generative model