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Distributed Parameter Estimation in Probabilistic Graphical Models

Machine Learning 2014-06-13 v1

Abstract

This paper presents foundational theoretical results on distributed parameter estimation for undirected probabilistic graphical models. It introduces a general condition on composite likelihood decompositions of these models which guarantees the global consistency of distributed estimators, provided the local estimators are consistent.

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@article{arxiv.1406.3070,
  title  = {Distributed Parameter Estimation in Probabilistic Graphical Models},
  author = {Yariv Dror Mizrahi and Misha Denil and Nando de Freitas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3070},
  year   = {2014}
}
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