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UAI
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
NIPS
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Variational methods are frequently used to approximate or bound the partition or likelihood function of a Markov random field. Methods based on mean field theory are guaranteed ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper we investigate the fault diagnosis problem in IP networks. We provide a lower bound on the average number of probes per edge using variational inference technique pro...
CGF
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We propose a variational approach to computing an optimal segmentation of a 3D shape for computing a union of tight bounding volumes. Based on an affine invariant measure of e-ti...
ICONIP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Variational methods have proved popular and effective for inference and learning in intractable graphical models. An attractive feature of the approaches based on the Kullback-Lei...