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We describe convolutional deep exponential families (CDEFs) in this paper. CDEFs are built based on deep exponential families, deep probabilistic models that capture the hierarchical dependence between latent variables. CDEFs greatly reduce…

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We provide a classification of graphical models according to their representation as subfamilies of exponential families. Undirected graphical models with no hidden variables are linear exponential families (LEFs), directed acyclic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Dan Geiger , Christopher Meek

The paper introduces a generalization for known probabilistic models such as log-linear and graphical models, called here multiplicative models. These models, that express probabilities via product of parameters are shown to capture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Ydo Wexler , Christopher Meek

A conceptual framework involving partition functions of normal factor graphs is introduced, paralleling a similar recent development by Al-Bashabsheh and Mao. The partition functions of dual normal factor graphs are shown to be a Fourier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-23 G. David Forney

A factor-graph representation of quantum-mechanical probabilities (involving any number of measurements) is proposed. Unlike standard statistical models, the proposed representation uses auxiliary variables (state variables) that are not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Hans-Andrea Loeliger , Pascal O. Vontobel

Although Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have demonstrated their power in various applications, the graph convolutional layers, as the most important component of GCN, are still using linear transformations and a simple pooling step. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

This article develops a novel operational semantics for probabilistic control-flow graphs (pCFGs) of probabilistic imperative programs with random assignment and "observe" (or conditioning) statements. The semantics transforms probability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Torben Amtoft , Anindya Banerjee

In the current era of neural networks and big data, higher dimensional data is processed for automation of different application areas. Graphs represent a complex data organization in which dependencies between more than one object or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Ihsan Ullah , Mario Manzo , Mitul Shah , Michael Madden

Graphical causal models are an important tool for knowledge discovery because they can represent both the causal relations between variables and the multivariate probability distributions over the data. Once learned, causal graphs can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Andrew J Sedgewick , Joseph D. Ramsey , Peter Spirtes , Clark Glymour , Panayiotis V. Benos

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (Graph CNNs) are generalizations of classical CNNs to handle graph data such as molecular data, point could and social networks. Current filters in graph CNNs are built for fixed and shared graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ruoyu Li , Sheng Wang , Feiyun Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Over the last few years, we have witnessed the availability of an increasing data generated from non-Euclidean domains, which are usually represented as graphs with complex relationships, and Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have gained a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Andrea Pollastro , Roberto Prevete

Factorization machine (FM) is a prevalent approach to modeling pairwise (second-order) feature interactions when dealing with high-dimensional sparse data. However, on the one hand, FM fails to capture higher-order feature interactions…

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We incorporate discrete and continuous time Markov processes as building blocks into probabilistic graphical models with latent and observed variables. We introduce the automatic Backward Filtering Forward Guiding (BFFG) paradigm (Mider et…

Computation · Statistics 2022-11-02 Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer

Log-linear models are a classical tool for the analysis of contingency tables. In particular, the subclass of graphical log-linear models provides a general framework for modelling conditional independences. However, with the exception of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-04 Mathias Drton , Thomas S. Richardson

Graphs are fundamental data structures which concisely capture the relational structure in many important real-world domains, such as knowledge graphs, physical and social interactions, language, and chemistry. Here we introduce a powerful…

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Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the de facto standard for conditional sampling in diffusion models, yet it often reduces sample diversity. Using tools from statistical physics, we analyze the emergence of generative distortions induced by…

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Factor analysis is a flexible technique for assessment of multivariate dependence and codependence. Besides being an exploratory tool used to reduce the dimensionality of multivariate data, it allows estimation of common factors that often…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-19 Kelly C. M. Gonçalves , Afonso C. B. Silva

Functional dependence graph (FDG) is an important class of directed graph that captures the dominance relationship among a set of variables. FDG is frequently used in calculating network coding capacity bounds. However, the order of FDG is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Xiaoli Xu , Satyajit Thakor , Yong Liang Guan

We present in this article the model Function-described graph (FDG), which is a type of compact representation of a set of attributed graphs (AGs) that borrow from Random Graphs the capability of probabilistic modelling of structural and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Francesc Serratosa

Conditional Normalizing Flows (CNFs) are flexible generative models capable of representing complicated distributions with high dimensionality and large interdimensional correlations, making them appealing for structured output learning.…

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