3 accepted papers
Mixtures of Bernoulli product distributions are a simple and widely used latent-variable model, with applications in e.g.\ recommendation systems, crowdsourcing, and medical data analysis. We consider the problem of reconstructing the mixture parameters from oracle access to its probability generati…
Marginalization -- summing a function over all assignments to a subset of its inputs -- is a fundamental computational problem with applications from probabilistic inference to formal verification. Despite its computational hardness in general, there exist many classes of functions (e.g., probabilis…
Zhang et al. (ICML 2021, PLMR 139, pp. 12447–12457) introduced probabilistic generating circuits (PGCs) as a probabilistic model to unify probabilistic circuits (PCs) and determinantal point processes (DPPs). At a first glance, PGCs store a distribution in a very different way, they compute the prob…