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Fixed Points of Belief Propagation -- An Analysis via Polynomial Homotopy Continuation
Christian Knoll, Franz Pernkopf, Dhagash Mehta +1
Belief propagation (BP) is an iterative method to perform approximate inference on arbitrary graphical models. Whether BP converges and if the solution is a unique fixed point depe…
cs.AI2016
On the Latent Variable Interpretation in Sum-Product Networks
Robert Peharz, Robert Gens, Franz Pernkopf +1
One of the central themes in Sum-Product networks (SPNs) is the interpretation of sum nodes as marginalized latent variables (LVs). This interpretation yields an increased syntacti…