Information Geometry of Message Passing
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arXiv:2608.15922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that the natural-gradient stationary condition of variational inference has an edge-local form on a Forney-style factor graph. We start from the Bethe free energy and constrain a selected edge marginal to an exponential family. At a stationary point, the natural parameter of that edge equals the sum of two projected messages, one from each incident factor. Each projected message is the natural-gradient projection of the exact belief-propagation log-message at the current receiving marginal, or equivalently, the gradient of its expectati
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.15922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that the natural-gradient stationary condition of variational inference has an edge-local form on a Forney-style factor graph.
- We start from the Bethe free energy and constrain a selected edge marginal to an exponential family.
- At a stationary point, the natural parameter of that edge equals the sum of two projected messages, one from each incident factor.
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