[AI Seminar] AI Lunch -- Han Zhao -- March 7

[Adams Wei Yu]

A gentle reminder that the talk will be tomorrow (Tuesday) noon.

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Adams Wei Yu <weiyu at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear faculty and students,
>
> We look forward to seeing you Next Tuesday, March 7, at noon in NSH 3305
> for AI lunch. To learn more about the seminar and lunch, please visit
> the AI Lunch webpage <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> On Tuesday, Han Zhao <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhao1/> will give a talk
> titled “Sum-Product Networks: A New Probabilistic Inference Machine”.
>
> *Abstract:* Sum-product networks (SPNs) are new deep inference machines
> that admit exact probabilistic inference in linear time in the size of the
> network. In this talk I will establish some theoretical connections between
> SPNs and traditional graphical models like Bayesian Networks (BNs).
> Specifically, I will show that every SPN can be converted into a BN in
> linear time and space in terms of the network size. The key insight is to
> use Algebraic Decision Diagrams (ADDs) to compactly represent the local
> conditional probability distributions at each node in the resulting BN by
> exploiting context-specific independence (CSI). The generated BN has a
> simple directed bipartite graphical structure. I will also discuss some
> implications of the proof and establish a connection between the depth of
> an SPN and a lower bound of the tree-width of its corresponding BN. I will
> conclude the talk by discussing some algorithms for learning the parameters
> of SPNs based on maximum-likelihood principle and Bayesian approaches.
>
> This is joint work with Geoff Gordon, Mazen Melibari and Pascal Poupart.
>
>
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