converting between graphical models

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Summary

Bayes nets and MRFs are two frameworks for specifying factorization and conditional independence structure in probabilistic models. There are transformations which convert from one graphical model formalism to the other. However, sometimes these transformations must lose precision, because there are sets of independencies which can be represented as Bayes nets but not MRFs, and vice versa.

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Coursera: Probabilistic Graphical Models (2013)
An online course on probabilistic graphical models.
Author: Daphne Koller
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