Distributed Parameter Estimation in Probabilistic Graphical Models
Yariv Dror Mizrahi, Misha Denil, Nando de Freitas · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014
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.