On Cavity Approximations for Graphical Models
Tommaso RizzoBastian WemmenhoveHilbert J. KappenPublished in: CoRR (2006)
Keyphrases
- graphical models
- belief propagation
- probabilistic inference
- probabilistic model
- approximate inference
- probabilistic graphical models
- random variables
- markov networks
- bayesian networks
- conditional random fields
- map inference
- variational methods
- free energy
- graph structure
- partition function
- belief networks
- structure learning
- conditional independence
- loopy belief propagation
- factor graphs
- models with hidden variables
- statistical inference
- message passing
- undirected graphical models
- information extraction
- exact inference
- least squares
- efficient inference algorithms
- closed form