Notes on Factor Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Francesco Palmieri

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on New Directions in Neural Networks: 18th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks: WIRN 2008
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Many applications that involve inference and learning in signal processing, communication and artificial intelligence can be cast into a graph framework. Factor graphs are a type of network that can be studied and solved by propagating belief messages with the sum/product algorithm. In this paper we provide explicit matrix formulas for inference and learning in finite alphabet Forney-style factor graphs, with the precise intent of allowing rapid prototyping of arbitrary topologies in standard software like MATLAB.