Scaling laws for learning high-dimensional Markov forest distributions

The problem of learning forest-structured discrete graphical models from i.i.d. samples is considered. An algorithm based on pruning of the Chow-Liu tree through adaptive thresholding is proposed. It is shown that this algorithm is structurally consistent and the error probability of structure learn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Willsky, Alan S., Tan, Vincent Yan Fu, Anandkumar, Animashree
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73590
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0149-5888