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The intuitiveness of the tensor network graphical language is becoming well known through its use in numerical simulations using methods from tensor network algorithms. Recent times have also seen rapid progress in developing equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Sebastian Meznaric , Jacob Biamonte

We often encounter probability distributions given as unnormalized products of non-negative functions. The factorization structures are represented by hypergraphs called factor graphs. Such distributions appear in various fields, including…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-24 Yusuke Watanabe

Understanding the quantum evolution of light in nonlinear media is central to the development of next-generation quantum technologies. Yet modeling these processes remains computationally demanding, as the required resources grow rapidly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Nikolay Kapridov , Egor Tiunov , Dmitry Chermoshentsev

Backward propagation (BP) is widely used to compute the gradients in neural network training. However, it is hard to implement BP on edge devices due to the lack of hardware and software resources to support automatic differentiation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yequan Zhao , Xinling Yu , Zhixiong Chen , Ziyue Liu , Sijia Liu , Zheng Zhang

We propose a tensor generalized approximate message passing (TeG-AMP) algorithm for low-rank tensor inference, which can be used to solve tensor completion and decomposition problems. We derive TeG-AMP algorithm as an approximation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yinchuan Li , Guangchen Lan , Xiaodong Wang

We present a differentiable approach to learn the probabilistic factors used for inference by a nonparametric belief propagation algorithm. Existing nonparametric belief propagation methods rely on domain-specific features encoded in the…

This paper considers inference over distributed linear Gaussian models using factor graphs and Gaussian belief propagation (BP). The distributed inference algorithm involves only local computation of the information matrix and of the mean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-01 Jian Du , Shaodan Ma , Yik-Chung Wu , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

We study the Maximum Weight Matching (MWM) problem for general graphs through the max-product Belief Propagation (BP) and related Linear Programming (LP). The BP approach provides distributed heuristics for finding the Maximum A Posteriori…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Sungsoo Ahn , Michael Chertkov , Andrew E. Gelfand , Sejun Park , Jinwoo Shin

In Bayesian networks, exact belief propagation is achieved through message passing algorithms. These algorithms (ex: inward and outward) provide only a recursive definition of the corresponding messages. In contrast, when working on hidden…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-24 G. Nuel

In this paper, relaxed belief propagation (RBP) based detectors are proposed for multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) system. The factor graph is leveraged to represent the MIMO channels, and based on which our algorithms are developed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Feichi Long , Tiejun Lv

Modern quantum optical systems such as photonic quantum computers and quantum imaging devices require great precision in their designs and implementations in the hope to realistically exploit entanglement and reach a real quantum advantage.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Nicolas Allegra

The paper investigates parameterized approximate message-passing schemes that are based on bounded inference and are inspired by Pearl's belief propagation algorithm (BP). We start with the bounded inference mini-clustering algorithm and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Robert Mateescu , Kalev Kask , Vibhav Gogate , Rina Dechter

In this paper, we develop the notion of entropy for uniform hypergraphs via tensor theory. We employ the probability distribution of the generalized singular values, calculated from the higher-order singular value decomposition of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Can Chen , Indika Rajapakse

We address the problem of decoding sparse quantum error correction codes. For Pauli channels, this task can be accomplished by a version of the belief propagation algorithm used for decoding sparse classical codes. Quantum codes pose two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 David Poulin , Yeojin Chung

U-Nets are among the most widely used architectures in computer vision, renowned for their exceptional performance in applications such as image segmentation, denoising, and diffusion modeling. However, a theoretical explanation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Song Mei

We consider the optimal quantization of compressive sensing measurements following the work on generalization of relaxed belief propagation (BP) for arbitrary measurement channels. Relaxed BP is an iterative reconstruction scheme inspired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ulugbek Kamilov , Vivek K Goyal , Sundeep Rangan

This book serves as an introductory yet thorough guide to tensor networks and their applications in quantum computation and quantum information, designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level readers. In Part I, foundational topics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Mario Collura , Guglielmo Lami , Nishan Ranabhat , Alessandro Santini

Belief propagation and its variants are popular methods for approximate inference, but their running time and even their convergence depend greatly on the schedule used to send the messages. Recently, dynamic update schedules have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Charles Sutton , Andrew McCallum

Near optimal decoding of good error control codes is generally a difficult task. However, for a certain type of (sufficiently) good codes an efficient decoding algorithm with near optimal performance exists. These codes are defined via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-30 Uli Sorger

We study iterative blind symbol detection for block-fading linear inter-symbol interference channels. Based on the factor graph framework, we design a joint channel estimation and detection scheme that combines the expectation maximization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Luca Schmid , Tomer Raviv , Nir Shlezinger , Laurent Schmalen