Direct Message Approximation (DMA): A Consistency-Based Framework for Tractable Approximate Inference on Factor Graphs
Approximate message passing on factor graphs underlies two dominant families of probabilistic inference algorithms: expectation propagation (EP) and variational message passing (VMP). Both methods approximate the marginal at each factor edge, forcing an iterative round-robin schedule, risking negative-precision messages, and, for VMP, collapsing to point estimates at Dirac-delta factors. We…
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