An Introduction to Variational Methods for Graphical Models

• 1 January 1999
• journal article
• research article
• Published by Springer Nature in Machine Learning
• Vol. 37  (2) , 183-233
• https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007665907178

Abstract

Keywords

• GRAPHICAL MODELS
• BAYESIAN NETWORKS
• BELIEF NETWORKS
• PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE
• APPROXIMATE INFERENCE
• VARIATIONAL METHODS
• MEAN FIELD METHODS
• HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
• BOLTZMANN MACHINES
• NEURAL NETWORKS