The Ising Partition Function: Zeros and Deterministic Approximation.
Jingcheng LiuAlistair SinclairPiyush SrivastavaPublished in: FOCS (2017)
Keyphrases
- partition function
- markov random field
- closed form
- upper bound
- importance sampling
- approximate inference
- random fields
- belief propagation
- structured prediction
- upper and lower bounds
- probability density function
- maximum likelihood estimation
- parameter estimation
- exact computation
- bayesian framework
- graphical models
- lower bound
- structure learning
- conditional random fields
- special case
- maximum a posteriori
- non stationary
- exponential family
- markov chain
- probability distribution