Markov Networks

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:29:54 +1000

some dependencies have no natural direction. two neighbouring pixels tend to share a label; two friends tend to vote alike; two adjacent atoms couple their spins. forcing an arrow onto these symmetric interactions — as a bayesian network must — misrepresents them. the markov network (markov random field, mrf) is the undirected alternative, born in statistical physics: edges express mutual compatibility, parametrised not by conditional probabilities but by unnormalised potentials, with a global normalising constant picking up the bill. 𐃏

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