Loop Calculus and Belief Propagation for q-ary alphabet: Loop tower

Vladimir Y. Chernyak, Michael Chertkov

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Abstract

Loop Calculus introduced in [1], [2] constitutes a new theoretical tool that explicitly expresses the symbol Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) solution of a general statistical inference problem via a solution of the Belief Propagation (BP) equations. This finding brought a new significance to the BP concept, which in the past was thought of as just a loop-free approximation. In this paper we continue a discussion of the Loop Calculus. We introduce an invariant formulation which allows to generalize the Loop Calculus approach to a q-are alphabet.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2007
Pages316-320
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2007 - Nice, France
Duration: Jun 24 2007Jun 29 2007

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2157-8101

Other

Other2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2007
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period6/24/076/29/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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