On the Partition Function and Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations

In this paper we relate the partition function to the max-statistics of random variables. In particular, we provide a novel framework for approximating and bounding the partition function using MAP inference on randomly perturbed models. As a result, we can use efficient MAP solvers such as graph-cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hazan, Tamir, Jaakkola, Tommi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137613