Latent Variable Conditional Model

A Latent Variable Conditional Model is a discriminative conditional model that is a latent variable model.

• AKA: Conditional Latent Variable Model.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Latent Variable Discriminative Model.
• See: Generative Model.

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References

2007

• (Sutton & McCallum, 2007) ⇒ Charles Sutton, and Andrew McCallum. (2007). “An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning. In: (Getoor & Taskar, 2007).
  • QUOTE: … We discuss differences between generative and discriminative modeling, latent-variable conditional models, and practical aspects of CRF implementations. …

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