On the Minima of Bethe Free Energy in Gaussian Distributions.
Yu NishiyamaSumio WatanabePublished in: ICAISC (2008)
Keyphrases
- gaussian distribution
- free energy
- bethe free energy
- posterior distribution
- fixed point
- maximum likelihood
- belief propagation
- approximate inference
- gaussian mixture model
- expectation maximization
- competitive learning
- neural network
- loopy belief propagation
- upper bound
- graphical models
- sufficient conditions
- em algorithm
- message passing
- language model
- markov chain monte carlo
- higher order