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SUMMARY:The Fractional Belief Propagation menace - Frederik Eaton
DTSTART:20100128T140000Z
DTEND:20100128T153000Z
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CONTACT:Shakir Mohamed
DESCRIPTION:The Fractional Belief Propagation (FBP) message updates keep a
 rising in various contexts. In this lecture I will try to give an overview
  of some different ways to derive and motivate FBP.\n\nAttendees may want 
 to skim the following papers:\n\n"Wiegerinck\, Heskes - Fractional Belief 
 Propagation":http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips15/LT16.pdf\n\n"Wainwri
 ght et al -  A new class of upper bounds on the log partition function":ht
 tp://yaroslavvb.com/papers/wainwright-new.pdf\n\n"Minka - Divergence measu
 res and message passing":http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/min
 ka/papers/message-passing/minka-divergence.pdf\n
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room 438
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