Hidden Variables
- Q) What label should I use for a node whose value is hidden?
- A) Valid labels start at
0
. Thus, hidden labels are declared simply by using a value of-1
for any components that are not observed. When computing the marginal-based loss, and cliques involving hidden nodes will be disregarded. (The input features are still used for inference, of course.)
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