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ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Context-Specific Independence in Directed Relational Probabilistic Models and its Influence on the Efficiency of Gibbs Sampling
Abstract. There is currently a large interest in relational probabilistic models. While the concept of context-specific independence (CSI) has been well-studied for models such as ...
Daan Fierens
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Coarse-to-Fine Inference and Learning for First-Order Probabilistic Models
Coarse-to-fine approaches use sequences of increasingly fine approximations to control the complexity of inference and learning. These techniques are often used in NLP and visio...
Chloe Kiddon, Pedro Domingos
UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Context-specific approximation in probabilistic inference
There is evidence that the numbers in probabilistic inference don't really matter. This paper considers the idea that we can make a probabilistic model simpler by making fewe...
David Poole
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Improving on Expectation Propagation
A series of corrections is developed for the fixed points of Expectation Propagation (EP), which is one of the most popular methods for approximate probabilistic inference. These ...
Manfred Opper, Ulrich Paquet, Ole Winther
AI
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Parallelizing a Convergent Approximate Inference Method
Probabilistic inference in graphical models is a prevalent task in statistics and artificial intelligence. The ability to perform this inference task efficiently is critical in l...
Ming Su, Elizabeth Thompson