For more information about this meeting, contact Manfred Denker.
| Title: | Categorical graphical models |
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| Seminar: | Seminar on Probability and its Application |
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| Speaker: | Jason Morton, PSU |
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| Abstract: |
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| Probabilistic undirected factor graph models generalize graphical
models by replacing the clique complex associated to a graph with an
arbitrary simplicial complex. The algebraic version focuses on the
Zariski closure of the space of probability distributions modeled.
Monoidal categories are a categorical formalism with associated
graphical languages which are useful in representation theory, quantum
information and foundations, and topological quantum field theory. I
will describe work in progress on how the notion of discrete
undirected and directed probabilistic (and algebraic) factor graph
models can be understood in terms of a coherent graphical language for
a certain type of monoidal category with additional structure. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB106 |
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| Date: | 03 / 25 / 2011 |
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| Time: | 02:20pm - 03:20pm |
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