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Preliminary call for participation in the 2010 UAI approximate inference evaluation
We are pleased to announce an upcoming evaluation of probabilistic inference algorithms, as part of the UAI conference this July. All researchers working on inference in graphical models are encouraged to participate.
The evaluation will focus on the following computational tasks:
- calculating MAP/MPE assignments,
- calculating partition functions (i.e., probability of evidence), and
- calculating marginals.
More details can be found at the conference website
We look forward to your participation,
The organizers
New features in this year's competition
- There will be separate tracks for approximate algorithms that provide upper or lower bound guarantees and those that do not. Exact algorithms are of course invited to participate in any of these tracks.
- A special track will assess the merit of the submitted inference algorithms when used as a black box for parameter learning.
- Participants will receive automated performance reports and will be able to submit improvements during the entire competition period.
- May 3 Dataset and submission format announced
- May 10 Submissions accepted on website
- June 25 Final deadline for submissions
- July 1 Final results and winners announced
- July 8-11 Results reported at the UAI conference
- Gal Elidan, Hebrew University
- Amir Globerson, Hebrew University