Events: detail
Gatsby Unit External Seminar: Developing a general-purpose message-passing library
- Hosted by:
- Gatsby Unit
- Speaker:
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John Winn, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
- Starts:
- February 13, 2008 at 04:00 pm
- Ends:
- February 13, 2008 at 05:00 pm
- Location:
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, Alexandra House, Seminar Room B10 (Basement), 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR United Kingdom
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Description
Infer.NET is a project underway at Microsoft Research to create a general-purpose software library for inference in graphical models. The project is heavily inspired by BUGS and VIBES . However, the main focus of this library is efficient execution of deterministic message-passing algorithms on large-scale models. I will describe some of the research challenges we face and how we are addressing them. This is joint work with Tom Minka.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
