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Re: Stanford Class: Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Post by dvse »

If you are interested in learning this topic, do not go directly to Koller/Friedman book - it sure contains a lot of material but its presentation is not well integrated (just look at the topic dependency graph at the beginning).

A much more cohesive introduction would be Michael Jordan's book draft that has been floating around for nearly a decade now. You can find some of the older versions online, e.g. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lebanon/pub/book

Go directly to chapter 5 to see how the language of PGMs can help to clarify a lot of standard material in stats and ML.

Re: Stanford Class: Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Post by gajomi »

dvse wrote: post #21

If you are interested in learning this topic, do not go directly to Koller/Friedman book - it sure contains a lot of material but its presentation is not well integrated (just look at the topic dependency graph at the beginning). A much more cohesive introduction would be Michael Jordan's book draft that has been floating around for nearly a decade now. You can find some of the older versions online, e.g. http://www.…

And for a nice overview of how factor graphs, when considered generally, really can capture arbitrary dependencies I would check out "Extending factor graphs so as to unify directed and undirected graphical models" http://uai.sis.pitt.edu/papers/03/p257-frey.pdf.

Re: Stanford Class: Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Post by spicyj »

adbge wrote: post #16
queensnake wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean as opposed to pgm-class.online.stanford.edu? Well they're cheap, it makes the urls shorter, it's less confusing. Just good design. But too, I guess the ai-class is run by one of the teachers' startups, so it may be to separate them from Stanford, for that reason and to make it clear that you don't get Stanford credit.

> Just good design. From a SEO standpoint, it would make more sense to have them all hosted at stanford.edu/someclass, since the classes would then benefit from the "trust-factor" of the root domain. You'll notice that most of Google's web properties are hosted at google.com/something and not something.google.com or a separate domain, presumably for the same reason.

Consider: maps., docs., mail., plus., groups., translate., books., scholar. There are probably a bunch more -- I don't think Google is scared of subdomains.

Re: Stanford Class: Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Post by plinkplonk »

dvse wrote: post #21

If you are interested in learning this topic, do not go directly to Koller/Friedman book - it sure contains a lot of material but its presentation is not well integrated (just look at the topic dependency graph at the beginning). A much more cohesive introduction would be Michael Jordan's book draft that has been floating around for nearly a decade now. You can find some of the older versions online, e.g. http://www.…

Was this (Jordan's) book published? If yes, what is it called? He seems to have a couple of other books on Graphical models, but the contents of those book don't line up with the ones at the link above.

Re: Stanford Class: Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Post by antics »

plinkplonk wrote: post #24
dvse wrote: post #21

If you are interested in learning this topic, do not go directly to Koller/Friedman book - it sure contains a lot of material but its presentation is not well integrated (just look at the topic dependency graph at the beginning). A much more cohesive introduction would be Michael Jordan's book draft that has been floating around for nearly a decade now. You can find some of the older versions online, e.g. http://www.…

Was this (Jordan's) book published? If yes, what is it called? He seems to have a couple of other books on Graphical models, but the contents of those book don't line up with the ones at the link above.

This book does not exist as a published volume, at least not in the way it is presented in this draft. This is why it tends to circulate as a draft, rather than as (say) an Amazon link.

Re: Stanford Class: Probabilistic Graphical Models

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Post by plinkplonk »

antics wrote: post #25
plinkplonk wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was this (Jordan's) book published? If yes, what is it called? He seems to have a couple of other books on Graphical models, but the contents of those book don't line up with the ones at the link above.

This book does not exist as a published volume, at least not in the way it is presented in this draft. This is why it tends to circulate as a draft, rather than as (say) an Amazon link.

Thank You. I spent some time looking for it. And if anyone who has an up to date draft wants to send me a copy, my email is in my profile, Thanks in Advance :).
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