Local Conditioning: Exact Message Passing for Cyclic Undirected Distributed Networks

no code implementations • 6 Dec 2018 • Matthew G. Reyes

This paper addresses practical implementation of summing out, expanding, and reordering of messages in Local Conditioning (LC) for undirected networks.

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Minimum Conditional Description Length Estimation for Markov Random Fields

no code implementations • 9 Feb 2016 • Matthew G. Reyes, David L. Neuhoff

Then, for a subset $U\subset V$, we estimate the parameters for nodes and edges in $U$ as well as for edges incident to a node in $U$, by finding the exponential parameter for that subset that yields the best compression conditioned on the values on the boundary $\partial U$.