MIT AI Lab
tkapur@ai.mit.edu
The Mean-Field Solution
•Gibbs models can be solved using
–[Metropolis 1953], [Geman and Geman 1984], [Besag 1986]  etc.
•We use Mean-Field Approximation to estimate the expected value of the posterior GRF as a solution to a set of consistency equations.
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