Chengyuan Zhang

Chengyuan Zhang

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University

Fundamental Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Tail-to-tail, head-to-tail, and head-to-head structures are three common types of graphical models. In this post, we will introduce these structures and discuss their implications for probabilistic modeling and inference.

see https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~pachecoj/courses/csc535_fall20/lectures/pgms.pdf

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