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EMMCVPR
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Double-Loop Algorithm to Minimize the Bethe Free Energy
Recent work (Yedidia, Freeman, Weiss [22]) has shown that stable points of belief propagation (BP) algorithms [12] for graphs with loops correspond to extrema of the Bethe free ene...
Alan L. Yuille
UAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
KDD
2010
ACM
274views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Grafting-light: fast, incremental feature selection and structure learning of Markov random fields
Feature selection is an important task in order to achieve better generalizability in high dimensional learning, and structure learning of Markov random fields (MRFs) can automat...
Jun Zhu, Ni Lao, Eric P. Xing