21st July 2003 - Partition Function upper bounds
Zoubin and Chu Wei plan to present on the following two papers. The first covers much of the material in the second, so which you look at depends on the amount of time available.
M. J. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola and A. S. Willsky.
Tree-reweighted belief propagation and approximate ML estimation by
pseudo-moment matching. Presented at the 9th Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Key West, Florida; January,
2003
Abstract
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M. J. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola and A. S. Willsky.
A new class of upper bounds on the log partition function.
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; August 1--4, 2002;
Edmonton, CA.
Abstract / Full Text (352K ps) / Full Text (296K pdf)