{"title":"On factorization of positive functions","authors":"T.H. Chan, R. Yeung","doi":"10.1109/ISIT.2001.935907","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Factorization of positive functions into products of local functions is crucial in graphical modeling. In this paper, the problem of factorizing a positive function P is investigated. When P does not have a simple factorization, an approximation of P by a simple function is given by a computationally efficient algorithm.","PeriodicalId":433761,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37252)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37252)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2001.935907","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Factorization of positive functions into products of local functions is crucial in graphical modeling. In this paper, the problem of factorizing a positive function P is investigated. When P does not have a simple factorization, an approximation of P by a simple function is given by a computationally efficient algorithm.