Variational Message Passing and Local Constraint Manipulation in Factor Graphs

Variational Message Passing and Local Constraint Manipulation in Factor Graphs

Accurate evaluation of Bayesian model evidence for a given data set is a fundamental problem in model development. Since evidence evaluations are usually intractable, in practice variational free energy (VFE) minimization provides an attractive alternative, as the VFE is an upper bound on negative m...

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Main Authors: İsmail Şenöz, Thijs van de Laar, Dmitry Bagaev, Bert de Vries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
Bayesian inference
Bethe free energy
factor graphs
message passing
variational free energy
variational inference
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/7/807

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