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Belief propagation has recently emerged as a powerful framework for evaluating tensor networks in higher dimensions, combining computational efficiency with provable analytical guarantees. In this work, we develop the first end-to-end…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Siddhant Midha , Yifan F. Zhang , Daniel Malz , Dmitry A. Abanin , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Belief Propagation (BP) is a simple probabilistic inference algorithm, consisting of passing messages between nodes of a graph representing a probability distribution. Its analogy with a neural network suggests that it could have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Vincent Bouttier , Renaud Jardri , Sophie Deneve

Recently, researchers have demonstrated that loopy belief propagation - the use of Pearls polytree algorithm IN a Bayesian network WITH loops OF error- correcting codes.The most dramatic instance OF this IS the near Shannon - limit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Kevin Murphy , Yair Weiss , Michael I. Jordan

In order to diminish the damaging effect of loops on belief propagation (BP), the first explicit version of generalized BP for networks, the KCN-method, was recently introduced. Despite its success, the KCN-method spends computational…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-18 Pedro Hack

Belief propagation (BP) algorithm is a widely used message-passing method for inference in graphical models. BP on loop-free graphs converges in linear time. But for graphs with loops, BP's performance is uncertain, and the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Dong Liu , Minh Thành Vu , Zuxing Li , Lars K. Rasmussen

It has been proposed by many researchers that combining deep neural networks with graphical models can create more efficient and better regularized composite models. The main difficulties in implementing this in practice are associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Patrick Knöbelreiter , Christian Sormann , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Friedrich Fraundorfer , Thomas Pock

The belief propagation (BP) algorithm is widely applied to perform approximate inference on arbitrary graphical models, in part due to its excellent empirical properties and performance. However, little is known theoretically about when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Alexander T. Ihler

Belief Propagation (BP) is a popular, distributed heuristic for performing MAP computations in Graphical Models. BP can be interpreted, from a variational perspective, as minimizing the Bethe Free Energy (BFE). BP can also be used to solve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Andrew Gelfand , Jinwoo Shin , Michael Chertkov

The Bethe approximation is a successful method for approximating partition functions of probabilistic models associated with a graph. Recently, Chertkov and Chernyak derived an interesting formula called Loop Series Expansion, which is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-25 Yusuke Watanabe , Kenji Fukumizu

Tensor networks such as matrix product states (MPS) and projected entangled pair states (PEPS) are commonly used to approximate quantum systems. These networks are optimized in methods such as DMRG or evolved by local operators. We provide…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Yifan Zhang , Edgar Solomonik

We illustrate the utility of the recently developed loop calculus for improving the Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm. If the algorithm that minimizes the Bethe free energy fails we modify the free energy by accounting for a critical loop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael Chertkov , Vladimir Y. Chernyak

Compared to the linear MIMO detectors, the Belief Propagation (BP) detector has shown greater capabilities in achieving near optimal performance and better nature to iteratively cooperate with channel decoders. Aiming at real applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Wenyue Zhou , Yifei Shen , Liping Li , Yongming Huang , Chuan Zhang , Xiaohu You

Belief propagation is known to perform extremely well in many practical statistical inference and learning problems using graphical models, even in the presence of multiple loops. The iterative use of belief propagation algorithm on loopy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xiangqiong Shi , Dan Schonfeld , Daniela Tuninetti

In this paper, we develop a new neural network family based on power series expansion, which is proved to achieve a better approximation accuracy in comparison with existing neural networks. This new set of neural networks embeds the power…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Qipin Chen , Wenrui Hao , Juncai He

Tensor network contractions are widely used in statistical physics, quantum computing, and computer science. We introduce a method to efficiently approximate tensor network contractions using low-rank approximations, where each intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-01 Linjian Ma , Matthew Fishman , Miles Stoudenmire , Edgar Solomonik

Tensor network algorithms have proven to be very powerful tools for studying one- and two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. However, their application to three-dimensional (3D) quantum systems has so far been limited, mostly because…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Patrick C. G. Vlaar , Philippe Corboz

Tensor network contraction is a fundamental mathematical operation that generalizes the dot product and matrix multiplication. It finds applications in numerous domains, such as database systems, graph theory, machine learning, probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mike Heddes , Igor Nunes , Tony Givargis , Alex Nicolau

Belief propagation (BP) can do exact inference in loop-free graphs, but its performance could be poor in graphs with loops, and the understanding of its solution is limited. This work gives an interpretable belief propagation rule that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Dong Liu , Nima N. Moghadam , Lars K. Rasmussen , Jinliang Huang , Saikat Chatterjee

We propose an original particle-based implementation of the Loopy Belief Propagation (LPB) algorithm for pairwise Markov Random Fields (MRF) on a continuous state space. The algorithm constructs adaptively efficient proposal distributions…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Thibaut Lienart , Yee Whye Teh , Arnaud Doucet

The approximate contraction of a Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) tensor network is a fundamental ingredient of any PEPS algorithm, required for the optimization of the tensors in ground state search or time evolution, as well as for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Michael Lubasch , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mari-Carmen Bañuls