Improving on Expectation Propagation

A series of corrections is developed for the fixed points of Expectation Propagation (EP), which is one of the most popular methods for approximate probabilistic inference. These corrections can lead to improvements of the inference approximation or serve as a sanity check, indicating when EP yields unrealiable results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: Manfred Opper, Ulrich Paquet, Ole Winther
• Keywords: Approximate Probabilistic Inference, Expectation Propagation, Inference Approximation, Information Technology, NIPS 2008