no code implementations • 13 Nov 2015 • Mazen Melibari, Pascal Poupart, Prashant Doshi, George Trimponias
Since SPNs represent distributions over a fixed set of variables only, we propose dynamic sum product networks (DSPNs) as a generalization of SPNs for sequence data of varying length.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2015 • Han Zhao, Mazen Melibari, Pascal Poupart
We conclude the paper with some discussion of the implications of the proof and establish a connection between the depth of an SPN and a lower bound of the tree-width of its corresponding BN.