Expectation consistent free energies for approximate inference

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Opper, Manfred ^a   Winther, Ole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE INFERENCE; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; BETHE APPROXIMATION; BINARY VARIABLES; EXPECTATION PROPAGATION; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; NODE CONSTRAINTS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 29044434242     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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