Distributed Parameter Estimation in Probabilistic Graphical Models

This paper presents foundational theoretical results on distributed parameter estimation for undirected probabilistic graphical models. It introduces a general condition on composite likelihood decompositions of these models which guarantees the global consistency of distributed estimators, provided the local estimators are consistent.

Authors

• Yariv Mizrahi University of British Columbia
• Misha Denil
• Nando de Freitas University of British Columbia

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