Normal Factor Graphs
This thesis introduces normal factor graphs under a new semantics, namely, the exterior function semantics. Initially, this work was motivated by two distinct lines of research. One line is ``holographic algorithms,'' a powerful approach introduced by Valiant for solving various counting...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30659 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3563 |