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Belief propagation is a well-studied algorithm for approximating local marginals of multivariate probability distribution over complex networks, while tensor network states are powerful tools for quantum and classical many-body problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Chu Guo , Dario Poletti , Itai Arad

Effectively compressing and optimizing tensor networks requires reliable methods for fixing the latent degrees of freedom of the tensors, known as the gauge. Here we introduce a new algorithm for gauging tensor networks using belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Joseph Tindall , Matthew T. Fishman

Generalized belief propagation (GBP) has proven to be a promising technique for approximate inference tasks in AI and machine learning. However, the choice of a good set of clusters to be used in GBP has remained more of an art then a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Max Welling

Gaussian belief propagation (GBP) is a recursive computation method that is widely used in inference for computing marginal distributions efficiently. Depending on how the factorization of the underlying joint Gaussian distribution is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Jian Du , Shaodan Ma , Yik-Chung Wu , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Tensor network contraction on arbitrary graphs is a fundamental computational challenge with applications ranging from quantum simulation to error correction. While belief propagation (BP) provides a powerful approximation algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Siddhant Midha , Yifan F. Zhang

In this article, we present a visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation (GBP), an approximate probabilistic inference algorithm that operates by passing messages between the nodes of arbitrarily structured factor graphs. A special…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Joseph Ortiz , Talfan Evans , Andrew J. Davison

There is an increasing interest in scaling tensor network methods through belief propagation (BP), as well as increasing the accuracy of BP through tensor network methods. We develop a unification framework that takes an arbitrary graphical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Pedro Hack , Jonas Hitter , Christian B. Mendl , Alexandru Paler

Belief Propagation (BP) is a powerful algorithm for distributed inference in probabilistic graphical models, however it quickly becomes infeasible for practical compute and memory budgets. Many efficient, non-parametric forms of BP have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tom Yates , Yuzhou Cheng , Ignacio Alzugaray , Danyal Akarca , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Andrew J. Davison

Belief Propagation (BP) is an efficient message-passing algorithm widely used for inference in graphical models and for solving various problems in statistical physics. However, BP often yields inaccurate estimates of order parameters and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Seongmin Kim , Alec Kirkley

The generalized belief propagation (GBP), introduced by Yedidia et al., is an extension of the belief propagation (BP) algorithm, which is widely used in different problems involved in calculating exact or approximate marginals of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Farzin Haddadpour , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Morteza Noshad

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 is a well-studied message-passing algorithm that runs over graphical models and can be used for approximate inference and approximation of local marginals. The resulting approximations are equivalent to the Bethe-Peierls…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Roy Alkabetz , Itai Arad

We argue the case for Gaussian Belief Propagation (GBP) as a strong algorithmic framework for the distributed, generic and incremental probabilistic estimation we need in Spatial AI as we aim at high performance smart robots and devices…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Andrew J. Davison , Joseph Ortiz

Belief propagation (BP) can be a useful tool to approximately contract a tensor network, provided that the contributions from any closed loops in the network are sufficiently weak. In this manuscript we describe how a loop series expansion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Glen Evenbly , Nicola Pancotti , Ashley Milsted , Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We introduce the lifted Generalized Belief Propagation (GBP) message passing algorithm, for the computation of sum-product queries in Probabilistic Relational Models (e.g. Markov logic network). The algorithm forms a compact region graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Udi Apsel

Tensor network contraction is a fundamental computational challenge underlying quantum many-body physics, statistical mechanics, and machine learning. Belief propagation (BP) provides an efficient approximate solution, but introduces…

Belief propagation is a widely used message passing method for the solution of probabilistic models on networks such as epidemic models, spin models, and Bayesian graphical models, but it suffers from the serious shortcoming that it works…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-27 Alec Kirkley , George T. Cantwell , M. E. J. Newman

The belief propagation (BP) algorithm is an efficient way to solve "inference" problems in graphical models, such as Bayesian networks and Markov random fields. The system-state probability distribution of CSMA wireless networks is a Markov…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-07-15 Cai Hong Kai , Soung Chang Liew

We propose a method for approximating the contraction of a tensor network by partitioning the network into a sum of computationally cheaper networks. This method, which we call a partitioned network expansion (PNE), builds upon recent work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Glen Evenbly , Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The canonical problem of solving a system of linear equations arises in numerous contexts in information theory, communication theory, and related fields. In this contribution, we develop a solution based upon Gaussian belief propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-12 Danny Bickson
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