ISBN: 9780262062022    Publisher: MIT Press (MA) Year of publishing: 1998     Format:  Hardback No of Pages: 211        Language: English

A variety of problems in machine learning and digital communication deal with complex but structured natural or artificial systems. In this book, Brendan Frey uses graphical models as an overarching framework to describe and solve problems of pattern classification, unsupervised learning, data compression, and channel coding. Using probabilistic structures such as Bayesian belief networks and Markov random fields, he is able to describe the relationships between random variables in these systems and to apply graph-based inference techniques to develop new algorithms. Among the algorithms described are the wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised learning, the iterative turbodecoding algorithm (currently the best error-correcting decoding algorithm), the bits-back coding method, the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, and variational inference.
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Brendan J. Frey is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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