Aug 20, 2009

Fitting an inference algorithm instead of a model

Fitting an inference algorithm instead of a model

Basically, forget about the distribution that the CRF represents, and instead only care how accurate are the results that pop out of inference.

MRF/CRF 的 inference 一般是用 MAP,这样会比较慢。文中的思路是放弃使用 MAP,放弃 CRF 代表的分布含义(ML学习用的就是CRF的分布)。转而采用高速但非最优的 inference algorithm A (譬如 LBP, Graph cut 等许多循环算法只采用4次循环),  通过最小化 x 和 t (true value) 之间的 loss 来学习参数。

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