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?