Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference

The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables,...
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Author: Martin J. Wainwright
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Language: English
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Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference by Wainwright, Martin J.

Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference

$1,984.62

Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference

$1,984.62
Author: Martin J. Wainwright
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate statistical models. Graphical models have become a focus of research in many statistical, computational and mathematical fields, including bioinformatics, communication theory, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization, signal and image processing, information retrieval and statistical machine learning. Many problems that arise in specific instances-including the key problems of computing marginals and modes of probability distributions-are best studied in the general setting. Working with exponential family representations, and exploiting the conjugate duality between the cumulant function and the entropy for exponential families, Graphical Models, Exponential Families and Variational Inference develops general variational representations of the problems of computing likelihoods, marginal probabilities and most probable configurations. It describes how a wide variety of algorithms- among them sum-product, cluster variational methods, expectation-propagation, mean field methods, and max-product-can all be understood in terms of exact or approximate forms of these variational representations. The variational approach provides a complementary alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo as a general source of approximation methods for inference in large-scale statistical models.

Author: Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan
Publisher: Now Publishers
Published: 12/16/2008
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781601981844

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