Primal View on Belief Propagation

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Primal View on Belief Propagation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

It is known that fixed points of loopy belief propagation (BP) correspond to stationary points of the Bethe variational problem, where we minimize the Bethe free energy subject to normalization and marginalization constraints. Unfortunately, this does not entirely explain BP because BP is a dual rather than primal algorithm to solve the Bethe variational problem - beliefs are infeasible before convergence. Thus, we have no better understanding of BP than as an algorithm to seek for a common zero of a system of non-linear functions, not explicitly related to each other. In this theoretical paper, we show that these functions are in fact explicitly related -- they are the partial derivatives of a single function of reparameterizations. That means, BP seeks for a stationary point of a single function, without any constraints. This function has a very natural form: it is a linear combination of local log-partition functions, exactly as the Bethe entropy is the same linear combination of lo

Název v anglickém jazyce

Primal View on Belief Propagation

Popis výsledku anglicky

It is known that fixed points of loopy belief propagation (BP) correspond to stationary points of the Bethe variational problem, where we minimize the Bethe free energy subject to normalization and marginalization constraints. Unfortunately, this does not entirely explain BP because BP is a dual rather than primal algorithm to solve the Bethe variational problem - beliefs are infeasible before convergence. Thus, we have no better understanding of BP than as an algorithm to seek for a common zero of a system of non-linear functions, not explicitly related to each other. In this theoretical paper, we show that these functions are in fact explicitly related -- they are the partial derivatives of a single function of reparameterizations. That means, BP seeks for a stationary point of a single function, without any constraints. This function has a very natural form: it is a linear combination of local log-partition functions, exactly as the Bethe entropy is the same linear combination of lo

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

JD - Využití počítačů, robotika a její aplikace

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2010

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

UAI 2010: Proceedings of the Conference of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

ISBN

978-0-9749039-6-5

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Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

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Název nakladatele

AUAI Press

Místo vydání

Corvallis

Místo konání akce

Catalina Island

Datum konání akce

8. 7. 2010

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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