Reading questions

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  • What is a factor?
  • What is an undirected graphical model?
  • What form takes the distribution of an undirected graphical model?
  • What is the partition function?
  • What is a sufficient statistic?
  • What is a Markov network?
  • What is the local Markov property?
  • What is a factor graph?
  • What is a directed graphical model?
  • What is the difference between a generative and a discriminative model?
  • What is a linear-chain CRF?
  • What is a general CRF?
  • What is the forward-backward algorithm in a linear-chain CRF?
  • How to use Markov Chain Monte Carlo to do inference in a CRF?
  • What is the belief propagation algorithm for a CRF?