Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

Frey, Brendan J.

ISBN 10: 026206202X / ISBN 13: 9780262062022

Verlag: Bradford Books, 1998

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
• Verlag: Bradford Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 026206202X
• ISBN-13: 9780262062022
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

A variety of problems in machine learning and digital communication deal with complex but structured natural or artificial systems. In this book, Brendan Frey uses graphical models as an overarching framework to describe and solve problems of pattern classification, unsupervised learning, data compression, and channel coding. Using probabilistic structures such as Bayesian belief networks and Markov random fields, he is able to describe the relationships between random variables in these systems and to apply graph-based inference techniques to develop new algorithms. Among the algorithms described are the wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised learning, the iterative turbodecoding algorithm (currently the best error-correcting decoding algorithm), the bits-back coding method, the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, and variational inference.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brendan Frey is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.