Worst-case Optimal Submodular Extensions for Marginal Estimation
Tools
Tools
Tools
Pansari, Pankaj, Russell, Christopher and Kumar, M.Pawan (2018) Worst-case Optimal Submodular Extensions for Marginal Estimation In: 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2018), 09-11 Apr 2018, Hotel H10 Rubicon Palace, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
|
Text
Worst-case Optimal Submodular Extensions for Marginal Estimation.pdf Download (1MB) | Preview |
Abstract
Submodular extensions of an energy function can be used to efficiently compute approximate marginals via variational inference. The accuracy of the marginals depends crucially on the quality of the submodular extension. To identify the best possible extension, we show an equivalence between the submodular extensions of the energy and the objective functions of linear programming (LP) relaxations for the corresponding MAP estimation problem. This allows us to (i) establish the worst-case optimality of the submodular extension for Potts model used in the literature; (ii) identify the worst-case optimal submodular extension for the more general class of metric labeling; and (iii) efficiently compute the marginals for the widely used dense CRF model with the help of a recently proposed Gaussian filtering method. Using synthetic and real data, we show that our approach provides comparable upper bounds on the log-partition function to those obtained using tree-reweighted message passing (TRW) in cases where the latter is computationally feasible. Importantly, unlike TRW, our approach provides the first practical algorithm to compute an upper bound on the dense CRF model.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Conference Paper) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divisions : | Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Electronic Engineering | ||||||||||||
| Authors : |
|
||||||||||||
| Date : | 11 April 2018 | ||||||||||||
| Copyright Disclaimer : | © The authors 2018 | ||||||||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | Learning; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Machine Learning | ||||||||||||
| Related URLs : | |||||||||||||
| Depositing User : | Clive Harris | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited : | 23 Jan 2018 13:31 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified : | 12 Apr 2018 08:02 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/845669 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year